alt Hacker NewsThis is super important work, and is kind of why I built https://civic.band and https://civic.observer, which are generalized tools for monitoring civic govts. (You can search for anything, not just ALPR)
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ZeWaka • yesterday at 7:16 PM
Seem to be getting 405s from https://civic.observer/auth/login
And 404 from https://civic.band/why.html
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kpw94 • yesterday at 8:45 PM
Very cool! And important for sure, thank you.
Few questions:
- is the stack to index those open source?
- is there some standardized APIs each municipality provides, or do you go through the tedious task of building a per-municipality crawling tool?
- how often do you refresh the data? Checked a city, it has meeting minutes until 6/17, but the official website has more recent minutes (up to 12/2 at least)
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This is incredible, great work and will definitely be using and sharing this!
Where in the repos can we find the plugin/scraper for given municipalities to help contribute when they seem to be broken? As looks like the last meetings and agendas scraped for Cook County are from March/April of this year