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biglocalnews / warn-scraper

Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites
https://warn-scraper.readthedocs.io
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Add MA scrape #78

Open Dilcia19 opened 4 years ago

Dilcia19 commented 4 years ago

Massachusetts only appears to provide a weekly report as an Excel (i.e. only containing any records for that week).

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-act-warn-weekly-report

Not worth scraping that Excel file. We should call MA media contacts to inquire how to get historical data and if there is a better alternative source online.

If no alternative online source is available, we could either:

  1. Write a scraper for the weekly file that merges new data with a historical dataset (if available)
  2. Just treat this as a state that requires a regular (monthly or quarterly?) records request for the data

Either way, we need to do some fact-finding before settling on a strategy.

chriszs commented 2 years ago

Using Archive.org I did turn up reports for fiscal 2020 and 2021, but unclear to me whether these were the complete years at the time.

stucka commented 1 year ago

This looks really easy. I've requested earlier years, but FY2022 and FY2023 are here as a backup.

Weekly reports are cumulative for the latest year.

MassFY2023.xlsx MassFY2022.xlsx