KaylaCrush / advocacy-maps

The good governance project (GGP) is a non-partisan democracy reform group.
https://mapletestimony.org
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Add support for old-style activities tables #10

Closed KaylaCrush closed 1 year ago

KaylaCrush commented 1 year ago

The old style of Activities, Bill Numbers and Titles table was different than the modern ones. There is exclusively one table per page, and the table has one line for each lobbyist/client combo. It appears that, generally speaking, all the bills are grouped together in one entry in a comma-separated list, but that's another issue.

Sample Lobbying Entity Old-style Lobbying Entities have one table, with columns: Date, Activity or Bill No and Title, Lobbyist name, Client represented

Sample Individual Lobbyist Old-style individual lobbyists have one table, with columns: Date, Activity or Bill No and Title, Client represented

KaylaCrush commented 1 year ago

These old-style tables SUCK. the problem is the 'Activity or Bill No and Title' column - there is no rhyme or reason to it. It's always a huge list, sometimes separated by commas, sometimes by semicolons, sometimes with FREAKING NEWLINES. Seems like a tough nut to crack using my current methods, maybe come back to this later.

KaylaCrush commented 1 year ago

if I can solve #45 this will be a lot easier

KaylaCrush commented 1 year ago

DONEEEEEE with beautiful soup refactor