Scrape South Tech Hosting SJ campaign finance page

codeforsanjose / OpenDSJ-2018

Inform voters about 2018 San José, California and local candidates' campaign finance.

MIT License

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Open aeevrubin opened 5 years ago

aeevrubin commented 5 years ago

[ ] Write a webcrawler @GlennSG @lenatran

that scrapes the following campaign finance forms
Form 460
Form 460-A
Form 461
Form 496/497 from this website: https://www.southtechhosting.com/SanJoseCity/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/Search/SearchByElection.aspx
[ ] Parse the PDF files, convert into CSV files @teohrt
[ ] Parse the XSL files, convert into CSV files @nmnduy

GlennSG commented 5 years ago

Hello! I'll give this a shot with beautifulsoup python

acufarah commented 5 years ago

Hi, I am looking at extracting data from form 460 using a tool called Tabula which pulls info out of tables in PDFs to put them in spreadsheets.