alltheplaces/alltheplaces
Nov 2024 – Dec 2024
2 Months active
Languages Used
PythonShell
Technical Skills
API IntegrationData ExtractionData ParsingInternationalizationPythonRegular Expressions
Marco Ciotola
PROFILE
Marco Ciotola
Over two months, Marco delivered six new features across openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server and alltheplaces/alltheplaces, focusing on data extraction, localization, and CI/CD improvements. He implemented CI taxonomy caching and Docker enhancements to accelerate build times and streamline local development. In alltheplaces, Marco developed spiders in Python and Scrapy to extract and localize Italian retail and cinema data, including robust parsing of JSON and linked data for accurate address and schedule capture. His work improved data quality, expanded Italian coverage, and enhanced scraping reliability. Marco’s contributions demonstrated strong skills in data engineering, web scraping, and internationalization within collaborative open-source environments.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
100%Features
Repository Contributions
12Total
Bugs
0
Commits
12
Features
6
Lines of code
69,143
Activity Months2
Your Network
53 people
Work History
December 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focused on key accomplishments for the alltheplaces/alltheplaces repository. Delivered a new UCI Cinemas spider for Italy to extract cinema location data, enabling expanded coverage and higher data quality. The spider handles website mapping and address extraction by parsing JSON blobs and linked data, ensuring cinema details (branch names and addresses) are correctly captured and categorized. This work improves search accuracy, analytics, and downstream integrations for Italian cinema locations.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focused on key accomplishments for the alltheplaces/alltheplaces repository. Delivered a new UCI Cinemas spider for Italy to extract cinema location data, enabling expanded coverage and higher data quality. The spider handles website mapping and address extraction by parsing JSON blobs and linked data, ensuring cinema details (branch names and addresses) are correctly captured and categorized. This work improves search accuracy, analytics, and downstream integrations for Italian cinema locations.
December 2024
November 2024
11 Commits • 5 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered performance improvements, localization enhancements, and broader data coverage across two repositories. In openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server, implemented CI Taxonomy Caching for faster PR builds (GitHub Actions cache), updated Docker image artifact handling and local development data-volume linking (commit 09a0c77ec799e7586363a6682e43b5cf2ce912f9). Expanded Italian taxonomy data with a new packager codes script and refined Italian translations for bacon terms (commits dc36f77ae3cec0bea0959d5b72c75c46c316c801; 2f97b157399563e78bfd317a44657c7c0f828a79). In alltheplaces/alltheplaces, added Italian stores spiders for Caddy, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Kasanova, ODStore, and L'Isola dei Tesori, enabling parsing of store details, opening hours, and categorization (commits 80ee1213a38880056cc2d643c3ee048b1f9fbd52; 67d867d9ac0c05d67b206b95c1b03b0100f7dce7; c6ed35051e16d4d957d00975b7295e8d9d628961; 658a30debe282f754d1c84a7eca77d28d5e1cc94; 8c0df1f32074cd2f5f6307ed778907dc1a8adfbf). Italian opening hours localization and robustness enhancements improved parsing for Italian spiders, added localized day ranges and closed day keywords, and refactored OpeningHours/fit_active to preserve website and social links (commits 7f62999c04c33b1d67a237d0bca92a0d43e1ae95; e88e8c50cf1e21f3da2d77e911e5731f9863d666). ICCU Library Spider added to extract library data and minor dictionary/parser updates for Italian naming conventions (commit 3e2a93aab40cd17a77080b40bac7c97119ec20d3). These changes collectively accelerate development cycles, broaden Italian data coverage, improve data quality and localization, and enhance scraping robustness, delivering tangible business value.
November 2024
11 Commits • 5 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered performance improvements, localization enhancements, and broader data coverage across two repositories. In openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server, implemented CI Taxonomy Caching for faster PR builds (GitHub Actions cache), updated Docker image artifact handling and local development data-volume linking (commit 09a0c77ec799e7586363a6682e43b5cf2ce912f9). Expanded Italian taxonomy data with a new packager codes script and refined Italian translations for bacon terms (commits dc36f77ae3cec0bea0959d5b72c75c46c316c801; 2f97b157399563e78bfd317a44657c7c0f828a79). In alltheplaces/alltheplaces, added Italian stores spiders for Caddy, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Kasanova, ODStore, and L'Isola dei Tesori, enabling parsing of store details, opening hours, and categorization (commits 80ee1213a38880056cc2d643c3ee048b1f9fbd52; 67d867d9ac0c05d67b206b95c1b03b0100f7dce7; c6ed35051e16d4d957d00975b7295e8d9d628961; 658a30debe282f754d1c84a7eca77d28d5e1cc94; 8c0df1f32074cd2f5f6307ed778907dc1a8adfbf). Italian opening hours localization and robustness enhancements improved parsing for Italian spiders, added localized day ranges and closed day keywords, and refactored OpeningHours/fit_active to preserve website and social links (commits 7f62999c04c33b1d67a237d0bca92a0d43e1ae95; e88e8c50cf1e21f3da2d77e911e5731f9863d666). ICCU Library Spider added to extract library data and minor dictionary/parser updates for Italian naming conventions (commit 3e2a93aab40cd17a77080b40bac7c97119ec20d3). These changes collectively accelerate development cycles, broaden Italian data coverage, improve data quality and localization, and enhance scraping robustness, delivering tangible business value.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness90.8%
Maintainability89.2%
Architecture90.2%
Performance82.6%
AI Usage23.2%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
CSVMakefilePythonShellTextYAML
Technical Skills
API IntegrationCI/CDCachingData EngineeringData ExtractionData ManagementData ParsingDockerGitHub ActionsInternationalizationJSON ParsingLocalizationMakefilePythonRegular Expressions
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openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server
Nov 2024 – Nov 2024
1 Month active
Languages Used
CSVMakefileShellTextYAML
Technical Skills
CI/CDCachingData EngineeringData ManagementDockerGitHub Actions