From 575311edc6a097b73ab4fc0c05c6fde2c7c08492411b8a341bcf76b43fe678fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Varick <ben@dendroalsia.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 08:43:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] edited README and env.sample

---
 README.md  |  9 ++++-----
 env.sample | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f7016f3..acd1cb8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@ Dagster setup that scrapes GTFS and GTFS-RT for specified transit agencies and a
 This reads from the `config/agency_list.csv` file, edit this file to include the transit agencies that you want to scrape, add the relevant IDs from mobilitydatabase.org
 
 ## set your environment
-### Data directory
-edit dagster.yaml to specify the correct data directory under run_launcher.
-
-Right now it says: `/home/ben/code/gtfs-dagster/data:/opt/dagster/app/data`, change the first part to where you want the data to be stored.
 
 ### .env file
-copy `env.sample` to `.env` and change the database password and the mobility database refresh token
+copy `env.sample` to `.env` and change:
+- Postgres database password - make it something random before the first run
+- MobilityDatabase.org API token
+- Location of data, config, and postgres_data directories (default is in working directory)
 
 # Run it
 `docker compose build`
diff --git a/env.sample b/env.sample
index 0542d24..e495496 100644
--- a/env.sample
+++ b/env.sample
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
+# Postgres credentials
 POSTGRES_USER=dagster
-POSTGRES_PASSWORD=change-me
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD=change-me-to-something-random
 POSTGRES_DB=dagster
 
-MOBILITY_DB_REFRESH_TOKEN=put-token-from-mobilitydatabase-here
+# Storage locations
+DATA_DIRECTORY=${PWD}/data
+POSTGRES_DIRECTORY=${PWD}/postgres_data
+CONFIG_DIRECTORY=${PWD}/config
+
+# MobilityDatabase.org API token
+MOBILITY_DB_REFRESH_TOKEN=get-from-MobilityDatabase.org