Local government bodies hold thousands of public meetings every day—but the vast majority receive no media coverage and produce minimal records. City Bureau is working to scrape, standardize and share meeting details and documents to make government more accessible and transparent. See our City Scrapers website for more information
Group leaders
Darryl Holliday, Pat Sier
Who we're looking for
Anyone with experience in or interest in learning Python, or people interested in researching public agencies
About the group
Local government bodies hold thousands of public meetings every day—but the vast majority receive no media coverage and produce minimal records. City Bureau is working to scrape, standardize and share meeting details and documents to make government more accessible and transparent. See our City Scrapers website for more information
Group leaders
Darryl Holliday, Pat Sier
Who we're looking for
Anyone with experience in or interest in learning Python, or people interested in researching public agencies
Tools
Python and the Scrapy library for web scraping
Relevant Links
Where we meet
Cafeteria