Create `authority` scrape parameter for websites that serve multiple authorities

adrianshort / uk_planning_scraper

A Ruby gem to get planning applications data from UK council websites.

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Create `authority` scrape parameter for websites that serve multiple authorities #31

Open adrianshort opened 5 years ago

adrianshort commented 5 years ago

eg Northern Ireland:

http://epicpublic.planningni.gov.uk/publicaccess/search.do?action=advanced&searchType=Application

which is an Idox site that has a param called searchCriteria.localGovernmentDistrict.

An alternative approach would be to list each authority separately in authorities.csv and add extra scrape parameters to that file so that only the specific authority is searched.