Find a dentist

A simple tool to find NHS dentists taking on new NHS patients.

• Search for NHS dentists near a given postcode
• Write results to log file

Before you begin

1. Install python3 and pip.
2. Download chomedriver.exe into the driver directory.
3. Install dependencies with the pip install -r requirements.txt command.

Usage

Run python find-a-dentist.py from the terminal to execute the script. If the --postcode argument is missing you will be prompted for a postcode. Use -l or --logging to save results in the /results directory.

usage: find-a-dentist.py [-h] [-l] [-s] [-p POSTCODE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help                            show this help message and exit
  -l, --logging                         logging mode, save results
  -s, --silent                          hide console output
  -p POSTCODE, --postcode POSTCODE      postcode for search area

TODO

• add address field
• add phone number field
• add average review field
• add total review numbers field
• add most common keywords in reviews field
• add number of dentists max option
• add api call to calculate distance to postcode (pgeocode)