FEC News RSS 2.0
October 8th, 2004 | by Derek | published in Python, XML
The latest version of my Python script that scrapes the FEC’s press release page and creates an RSS feed fixes two previous errors, one big and one small.
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FECNews RSS 1.5
October 2nd, 2004 | by Derek | published in Python, XML
I’ve updated my Python script that creates an RSS feed by scraping the FEC’s page of news releases, due to a redesign of the FEC site.
Screenscraping the Senate
September 2nd, 2004 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, XML
Paul Ford has a new column on XML.com called “Hacking Congress” that aims to create an RDF description of the federal government. His first piece shows how to create an XML file of biographical information about U.S. Senators.
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FEC News RSS 1.4
July 13th, 2004 | by Derek | published in Python, XML
Just a small change to my script that makes an RSS feed from the Federal Election Commission’s releases: instead of grabbing just the press releases, it grabs the first 10 items from the entire “What’s New” section of the homepage.
Hawaii Legislature RSS
July 8th, 2004 | by Derek | published in XML
The Hawaii State Legislature has an RSS feed of reports from state agencies received in the past two months. A second feed covers recent acquisitions by the Legislative Reference Bureau.