[Open-Legislation] All your data are belong to us

Mon May 2 01:52:11 UTC 2011

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:47:23AM +0200, JOSEFSSON Erik wrote:
> After a discussion on iindep, I thought this might be a better list for discussing this subject.
> Tratten only scrapes oeil. But oeil does not display e.g. committee deadlines for amendments. For that you'd need a script which monitors each committee page, e.g IMCO:
> 
>     http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/organes/imco/imco_7leg_meetinglist.htm
> 
> and downloads "MEETING DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE", e.g.:
> 
>     http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/organes/imco/imco_20110411_1500.htm
> 
> and looks for draft agendas and minutes, e.g.:
> 
>     http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/imco/oj/863/863898/863898en.pdf
> 
> 
> In such documents the deadlines (and other interesting stuff) is displayed like this:
> 
>     24. Modernisation of public procurement
>         IMCO/7/05500
>               2011/2048(INI)        COM(2011)0015
>         Rapporteur:        Heide Rühle (Verts/ALE)
>         Responsible:       IMCO –
>         Opinions:          INTA –
>                            CONT – Bart Staes (Verts/ALE)
>                            ECON – Decision: no opinion
>                            EMPL – Julie Girling (ECR)
>                            ENVI – Åsa Westlund (S&D)
>                            ITRE – Konrad Szymanski (ECR)
>                            REGI –
>                            JURI – Decision: no opinion
>         *  Exchange of views
>         *  Deadline for tabling amendments:14 July 2011, 12.00
> 
> 
> I'd be very interested in a script that extracts that last line. Any such hacks around? :-)

sir, your wish:
https://github.com/pudo/parltrack/tree/master/parltrack/scrapers

currently dumps tabling deadlines and a json dump of all scraped data from the
pdfs, see an example here: http://privatepaste.com/download/90a0716f02

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