[wdmmg-discuss] EU level version of WDMMG

[Michael Friis]

I just poked around in the web-interface of
http://ec.europa.eu/beneficiaries/fts/index_en.htm

It's POST-based unfortunately, but at least there is no password
protection. Also, it looks like there is no cookie mumbo-jumbo (other
than language-config). If you want details, POSTs should go to
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/fts/index.cfm?fuseaction=search_details .
I've included a post request string below. I think (but am not sure)
that the operative parameter is 'comm_id', which in this case is
'212348'. A good first strategy would be to loop from comm_id=1 and
see what comes out. The html looks pretty well-structured and should
be parseable.

Regards
Michael

Example request-string below
--
x=4&y=13&STARTROW=151&ENDROW=175&X=8&Y=9&LG=EN&INPBENEF=&SELCOUNTRIES=56&PUBLICATION_YEAR=2009&INPPOSTCODE=&SELAMNTOPTR=%3D&INPAMNT=&SELEXPTYPE=&INPBUDGETLINEDESCNBR=&SELORDERBY1=amnt_grant%7CAmount&SELORDERBYTYPE1=desc&SELORDERBY2=&SELORDERBYTYPE2=asc&SELORDERBY3=&SELORDERBYTYPE3=asc&SELOPTFIELDS=address%2Ccomm_dep_opt%2Cbudget_line_name_nbr%2Cprogram_desc%2Ccofinancing_rate%2Cgeo_zone_desc%2Cis_admin&OPTFIELDS=comm_dep%2Cbudget_line_name_nbr%2Cprogram%2Ccofinancing_rate%2Cgeo_zone%2Cis_admin&LNG_CD=EN&BTNBACK=Go+back+to+results+list&comm_id=212348