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Right now we are aggressively scraping all events and all bills on Friday afternoon and evenings to deal with changes to events and bills not modifying appropriate fields so we can catch updated infor…
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XPS is a proprietary Microsoft document format similar to a PDF. They can't be opened in OpenOffice, so unoconv can't convert them. I spiked conversion with ConvertAPI in [this branch](https://github.…
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It would be great to modify this to use https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter, so that users could be prompted to fill in parameters interactively instead of cloning and manually renaming / substitu…
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City staff and the general public have no systematic way to find content on specific issues in City Council memos, which are all published online as PDFs.
This makes it very difficult and often ineff…
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http://chicouncilmatic.datamade.us/search/?q=o%27hare
I think we'll need to adjust how SOLR deals with punctuation.
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This new ordinance, for a zoning change, only shows the "attachment" PDF and not the ordinance PDF.
https://chicago.councilmatic.org/legislation/o2019-1388/
Notice how the City Clerk's we…
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We'd like to add a new page about Board Policies, with a list of policies linking to the PDF of each in our library/archive, and its date of adoption. Initially I thought these links could be on the A…
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Recently, Chicago Legistar had a bill with duplicate `indexes`:
The scraper imported these duplicates (as seen in our OCD API):
Our Councilmatic database could not import the bill, due …
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We have a lot of sites that make use of showing data in a table format. However, on mobile, the horizontal space is limited and bootstrap's default solution with `table-responsive` (https://getbootstr…
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The rtf conversion script for NYC sometimes requires longer than 15 minutes to complete (which delays NYC data imports).
Let's replace the RTF --> HTML with the actual PDFs. It should be possible …