AP Harvester

AP Harvester is an open source, collaborative data collection platform designed to help newsrooms gather structured data at the speed of news. We built it to lower the barriers in spinning up a new data collection project so that you can get to the story faster.

AP Harvester is schema-driven, meaning you define the structure of the dataset you want to collect and Harvester automatically renders a user-friendly form through which a team of reporters can enter data as they collect it. It's built to be flexible and transparent, allowing you to adapt as your data collection needs change.

AP Harvester uses Google Sheets as a data storage mechanism, meaning you can easily view and work with your data in a tool used by many newsrooms already. Starting a new data collection project with AP Harvester is as easy creating a new spreadsheet.

Deploy straight to Heroku

Ready to dive right in? Hit the button to deploy AP Harvester directly to Heroku. Take a look at the setup documentation for how to get started.

Documentation

• :rocket: Once you have your own Harvester set up you can start your very own data collection project!

• :books: Looking for some more in-depth documentation on what you can do in your schema? We've got you covered.

• :heavy_plus_sign: Trying to collaborate with a whole team on your data collection project? Awesome!

• :wave: Interested in helping make AP Harvester better? :heart:

Credit

This project has been a labor of love for the AP Data Team and we can't wait to see what you do with it! If you do decide develop your own fork and take it in your own direction we would really appreciate it a shout-out to the Associated Press in your version of the tool.

Happy harvesting!