{"repo":"City-Bureau/city-scrapers","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/City-Bureau/city-scrapers","clone":"git clone https://github.com/City-Bureau/city-scrapers.git","description":"Scrape, standardize and share public meetings from local government websites","language":"HTML","stars":380,"topics":["web-scraping","python","open-data","scrapy","city-scrapers"],"license":"MIT","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"City Scrapers Who are the City Bureau Documenters, and why do they want to scrape websites? Public meetings are important spaces for democracy where any resident can participate and hold public figures accountable. City Bureau's Documenters program pays community members an hourly wage to inform and engage their communities by attending and documenting public meetings. How does the Documenters program know when meetings are happening? It isn’t easy! These events are spread across dozens of websites, rarely in useful data formats. That’s why City Bureau is working together with a team of civic coders to develop and coordinate the City Scrapers, a community open source project to scrape and store these meetings in a central database. What are the City Scrapers? The City Scrapers collect information about public meetings. Every day, the City Scrapers go out and fetch information about new meetings from the Chicago city council's website, the local school council's website, the Chicago police department's website, and many more. This happens automatically so that a person doesn't have to do it. The scrapers store all of the meeting information in a database for journalists at City Bureau to report on them. Community members are also welcome to use this code to set up their own databases. What can I learn from working on the City Scrapers? A lot about the City of Chicago! What is City Council talking about this week? What are the local school councils, and what community power do ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/City-Bureau","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/City-Bureau/city-scrapers/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}