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Thu Dec 15 10:32:01 UTC 2011

Laurent,

Welcome as well!

how do you exactly parse the website? Do you use a framework? Which
programming language?

Within the iRail NPO we developed The DataTank a platform which can be used
to easily scrape a website and turn it into a RESTful API returning JSON,
XML, ...

You can check it out on http://thedatatank.com. If you have any questions
about it don't hesitate to contact me.

Best Regards,

Lieven Janssen

2011/12/15 Peter Dedecker <Peter.Dedecker at n-va.be>

>
> Great, welcome!
>
> I especially like your attempt to parse lachambre.be as I use this
> annoying site a lot. If you are able to parse the committee meeting
> schedule and allow me to trigger on my name there, that would be a great
> help to organize myself as we are not notified on the content of changes in
> the schedule and we always have to scan the whole thing for our individual
> changes. The Chamber isn't the most progressive institution regarding IT...
>
> So good luck and welcome in the group!
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 15-dec.-2011, at 05:44, Laurent Peuch <psycojoker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I never know how to present myself, but let's try it:
> > I'm Laurent Peuch (Bram on irc), from the Internet, I'm a free
> > software/freedom/Internet lover/activist and a code addict.
> >
> > In the informations that might interest you, I'm:
> > - involved since quite some time already as a volunteer in la
> >  Quadrature du Net, a French citizen group that defend our freedom
> >  (especially of expression) on the Internet and Net Neutrality. It
> >  has been especially involved against ACTA.
> > - also involved since the beginning in NURPA, a Belgium citizen group
> >  that participate in the same subjects than la Quadrature du Net but
> >  in Belgium (and also at the European level).
> > - the main develop of the political memory of la Quadrature du Net
> >  which rely a lot of opendata (provided by Parltrack for the
> >  European Parliament and by NosDeputes.Fr for the French Assemble).
> >  It's one of our main campaign tools that also allow us to compare
> >  how our elected representatives match our voting recommendations on
> >  text that are related to our subjects (ie: the vote on the
> >  resolution on ACTA).
> > - also involved in Neutrinet.
> > - probably forgetting something.
> > - the fact that I have just started to parse lachambre.be to create
> >  structured data out of it because I'm very annoyed that no one has
> >  ever done this yet (at my knowledge) reminded me to subscribe to
> >  this list.
> >
> > I subscribed to this list to be informed on what is happening on
> > opendata in Belgium (I'm quite disconnected with this community in
> > general) and also because I'm very happy to see things moving and see
> > if I can give an hand.
> >
> > I believe that this is the right time for us citizens to change the
> > society by building the right tools, especially on the political level
> > by taking back our role in it, and that opendata is a key element to
> > that (but not only for that).
> >
> > I'm also addicted to chocolate and cats.
> >
> > Nice to meet you :)
> >
> > --
> >
> > Laurent Peuch -- Bram
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