Add Python web scraper for NJC travel rates with currency extraction

- Implemented Python scraper using BeautifulSoup and pandas to automatically collect travel rates from official NJC website
- Added currency extraction from table titles (supports EUR, USD, AUD, CAD, ARS, etc.)
- Added country extraction from table titles for international rates
- Flatten pandas MultiIndex columns for cleaner data structure
- Default to CAD for domestic Canadian sources (accommodations and domestic tables)
- Created SQLite database schema (raw_tables, rate_entries, exchange_rates, accommodations)
- Successfully scraped 92 tables with 17,205 rate entries covering 25 international cities
- Added migration script to convert scraped data to Node.js database format
- Updated .gitignore for Python files (.venv/, __pycache__, *.pyc, *.sqlite3)
- Fixed city validation and currency conversion in main app
- Added comprehensive debug and verification scripts

This replaces manual JSON maintenance with automated data collection from official government source.
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const fs = require("fs");
// Read accommodation rates
const accomData = JSON.parse(
fs.readFileSync("./data/accommodationRates.json", "utf8")
);
const canadianCities = Object.keys(accomData.cities);
const internationalCities = Object.keys(accomData.internationalCities || {});
console.log("=== ACCOMMODATION CITIES ===");
console.log(`Canadian: ${canadianCities.length}`);
console.log(`International: ${internationalCities.length}`);
console.log(`Total: ${canadianCities.length + internationalCities.length}\n`);
// Now get existing airport codes from flightService.js
const flightService = fs.readFileSync("./flightService.js", "utf8");
console.log("=== MISSING AIRPORT CODES ===");
const missing = [];
internationalCities.forEach((key) => {
const normalized = key.toLowerCase();
if (
!flightService.includes(`${normalized}:`) &&
!flightService.includes(`"${normalized}":`)
) {
const city = accomData.internationalCities[key];
missing.push(
` "${normalized}": "???", // ${city.name} (${
city.country || city.region
})`
);
}
});
missing.forEach((m) => console.log(m));
console.log(`\n=== SUMMARY ===`);
console.log(`Total international cities: ${internationalCities.length}`);
console.log(`Missing airport codes: ${missing.length}`);