From 2e60c64f61f545f87c26ff55e08f8dc3a8ec6159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ggman12 <goodejonah@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 13:05:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add src/get_historical_faa.py

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 src/get_historical_faa.py | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/get_historical_faa.py

diff --git a/src/get_historical_faa.py b/src/get_historical_faa.py
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+'''Generated with ChatGPT 5.2 prompt
+scrape-faa-releasable-aircraft
+Every day it creates a new commit that takes ReleasableAircraft zip from FAA takes Master.txt to make these files (it does this so that all files stay under 100mb). For every commit day I want to recombine all the files into one Master.txt again. It has data/commits since 2023.
+scrape-faa-releasable-aircraft % ls
+ACFTREF.txt     DOCINDEX.txt    MASTER-1.txt    MASTER-3.txt    MASTER-5.txt    MASTER-7.txt    MASTER-9.txt    RESERVED.txt
+DEALER.txt      ENGINE.txt      MASTER-2.txt    MASTER-4.txt    MASTER-6.txt    MASTER-8.txt    README.md       ardata.pdf
+'''
+import subprocess, re
+from pathlib import Path
+from collections import OrderedDict
+
+def run(*args: str) -> str:
+    return subprocess.check_output(args, text=True).strip()
+
+# Get commits that touched any MASTER-*.txt, oldest -> newest
+log = run("git", "log", "--reverse", "--format=%H %cs", "--", ".")
+# If you want to restrict to only commits that touched the master parts, use:
+# log = run("git", "log", "--reverse", "--format=%H %cs", "--", "MASTER-1.txt")
+
+lines = [ln for ln in log.splitlines() if ln.strip()]
+if not lines:
+    raise SystemExit("No commits found.")
+
+# Map date -> last commit SHA on that date (Ordered by history)
+date_to_sha = OrderedDict()
+for ln in lines:
+    sha, date = ln.split()
+    # keep last SHA per day
+    date_to_sha[date] = sha
+
+out_root = Path("out_master_by_day")
+out_root.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+
+master_re = re.compile(r"^MASTER-(\d+)\.txt$")
+
+for date, sha in date_to_sha.items():
+    # list files at this commit, filter MASTER-*.txt in repo root
+    names = run("git", "ls-tree", "--name-only", sha).splitlines()
+    parts = []
+    for n in names:
+        m = master_re.match(n)
+        if m:
+            parts.append((int(m.group(1)), n))
+    parts.sort()
+
+    if not parts:
+        # no master parts in that commit/day; skip
+        continue
+
+    day_dir = out_root / date
+    day_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    out_path = day_dir / "Master.txt"
+
+    with out_path.open("wb") as w:
+        for _, fname in parts:
+            data = subprocess.check_output(["git", "show", f"{sha}:{fname}"])
+            w.write(data)
+            if data and not data.endswith(b"\n"):
+                w.write(b"\n")
+
+    print(f"{date} {sha[:7]} -> {out_path} ({len(parts)} parts)")
+
+print(f"\nDone. Output root: {out_root.resolve()}")