heatseeknyc / landlord-lookup-future

Notes and specifications for new features + future uses of the Landlord Lookup portal.p
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Renewable pipeline for taxbills.nyc dataset #8

Open wstlabs opened 8 years ago

wstlabs commented 8 years ago

The current version of the app features ownership data harvested from a one-time scrape of taxbill PDFs performed in 2015, and kindly provided to us by the folks running that service. We just need to find out if they indeed to perform future scrapes, or if we can manage to do it ourselves (at least 2x a year initially).

We've started the communication process on this + hope to have an update shortly.

wstlabs commented 8 years ago

BTW here's the site we'd most likely need to scrape if we wanted to get this data ourselves:

http://nycprop.nyc.gov/nycproperty/nynav/jsp/selectbbl.jsp

To get an idea how it works, try searching or block 411, lot 45 in Manhattan.