Police-Data-Accessibility-Project / scrapers

Code relating to scraping public police data.
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Move data source collection tools to data-source-identification #252

Open josh-chamberlain opened 1 week ago

josh-chamberlain commented 1 week ago

Context

https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/data-source-identification

The Scrapers repo is for collecting data from one or more source at a time for use/analysis.

However, we have some tools for scraping with the express goal of generating sources (lists of URLs) for submission to our database. We have tools in the data source ID repo which can parse those lists of URLs, either identifying agencies, sending the URLs to our annotation pipeline, etc.

Requirements

eddie-m-m commented 1 week ago

Clarification needed: There is the muckrock_tools and then there is the muckrock_scraper.py with templates. Should only the muckrock_tools be moved (since the other doesn't appear to deal with source collection)?

josh-chamberlain commented 1 week ago

@eddie-m-m good catch, yes! The other one is for grabbing files from MuckRock, and it's in the right spot!