"""Offline generator for backend/cities.json — the finite set of cities that get crawlable climate pages (/climate/). Run occasionally to refresh the list: python gen_cities.py [N] # default N=500 top metros by population It reuses the GeoNames index that places.py already downloads/parses (calling places._load() synchronously fills places._data), takes the top-N places by population, and assigns each a stable, unique, URL-safe slug. Committing the output keeps the routable city set explicit and reviewable, and decouples page-serving from the async place-name loader. """ import json import os import re import sys import unicodedata import places OUT_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "cities.json") # GeoNames entry tuple layout (see places._load): the fields we keep. _NAME, _ADMIN1, _COUNTRY, _CC, _LAT, _LON, _POP = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 def slugify(*parts: str) -> str: """ASCII, lowercase, hyphenated slug from name/admin/country parts.""" text = " ".join(p for p in parts if p) text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKD", text).encode("ascii", "ignore").decode() text = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", "-", text).strip("-").lower() return re.sub(r"-{2,}", "-", text) # Core English-speaking countries — the first English top-up tier. ENGLISH_CC = {"US", "GB", "CA", "AU", "NZ", "IE", "ZA"} # A second English top-up tier: the remaining countries where English is an official # language, plus countries where >35% of the population speaks English (Eurobarometer # 2012 "can hold a conversation in English" / EF EPI). Both drive English-language # search demand. Editable — this is a judgment call, not a hard rule. ENGLISH_EXTENDED_CC = { # English official (beyond the core seven) "IN", "PK", "PH", "SG", "HK", "MY", "LK", "PG", "FJ", "NG", "KE", "GH", "UG", "TZ", "ZW", "ZM", "MW", "BW", "NA", "RW", "SL", "LR", "MU", "SS", "SZ", "LS", "GM", "SC", "JM", "TT", "BB", "BS", "BZ", "GY", "GD", "LC", "VC", "AG", "DM", "KN", "MT", # >35% English proficiency (non-official) "NL", "SE", "DK", "NO", "IS", "FI", "DE", "AT", "BE", "CH", "LU", "CY", "SI", "GR", "EE", "LV", "LT", "FR", "IL", } def _to_city(e, seen_slugs: set[str]) -> dict | None: name, admin1, country, cc = e[_NAME], e[_ADMIN1], e[_COUNTRY], e[_CC] # Drop admin1 from the slug when it just repeats the city name # (e.g. Tokyo/Tokyo, Singapore/Singapore) to avoid "tokyo-tokyo-jp". admin_part = admin1 if admin1 and slugify(admin1) != slugify(name) else "" base = slugify(name, admin_part, cc or "") if not base: return None slug = base i = 2 while slug in seen_slugs: # disambiguate the rare collision slug = f"{base}-{i}" i += 1 seen_slugs.add(slug) return { "slug": slug, "name": name, "admin1": admin1, "country": country, "country_code": cc, "lat": round(e[_LAT], 5), "lon": round(e[_LON], 5), "population": e[_POP], } def build(n_global: int = 500, n_english: int = 250, n_extended: int = 250) -> list[dict]: """Three tiers, population-descending, de-duplicated: 1. top n_global cities worldwide, 2. up to n_english more from core English-speaking countries, 3. up to n_extended more from the remaining English-official + >35%-English countries — all not already chosen.""" places._load() # synchronous parse; fills places._data (entries are pop-desc) if not places._data: raise SystemExit("GeoNames index failed to load (see logs); cannot generate cities.") entries = places._data[0] out: list[dict] = [] seen_slugs: set[str] = set() chosen_ids: set = set() # (name, admin1, cc) already added, so tiers don't overlap def add_from(pred, limit: int) -> int: added = 0 for e in entries: if added >= limit: break if not pred(e): continue ident = (e[_NAME], e[_ADMIN1], e[_CC]) if ident in chosen_ids: continue c = _to_city(e, seen_slugs) if c: out.append(c) chosen_ids.add(ident) added += 1 return added add_from(lambda e: True, n_global) # tier 1: global add_from(lambda e: e[_CC] in ENGLISH_CC, n_english) # tier 2: core English add_from(lambda e: e[_CC] in ENGLISH_EXTENDED_CC, n_extended) # tier 3: extended English return out def main() -> None: a = sys.argv[1:] n_global = int(a[0]) if len(a) > 0 else 500 n_english = int(a[1]) if len(a) > 1 else 250 n_extended = int(a[2]) if len(a) > 2 else 250 cities = build(n_global, n_english, n_extended) with open(OUT_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f: json.dump(cities, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=0, separators=(",", ":")) f.write("\n") print(f"wrote {len(cities)} cities ({n_global} global + {n_english} core-English + " f"{n_extended} extended-English) -> {OUT_PATH}") print("sample:", ", ".join(c["slug"] for c in cities[:8])) if __name__ == "__main__": main()