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Keeping tabs on the UK's parliaments and assemblies
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[User suggestion] EDMs not working - swap to parliament site #1341

Open JenMysoc opened 6 years ago

JenMysoc commented 6 years ago

We currently get EDMs from http://www.edms.org.uk/mps/25633 fr example, but this appears not to be updating and this is leading to people emailing user support telling us the data is wrong.

It looks like the parliament site is up to date (http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2017-19/6217/ruth--george for example) so we could swap to using this instead!

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/early-day-motions/edms-by-member/

dracos commented 6 years ago

These URLs involve the PIMS ID of each MP, so we'd need to store that somewhere (I thought we already did, but can't see it), and then a URL like http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/early-day-motions/edm-member-detail/?member=3572 appears to work without having to know the session years.

dracos commented 6 years ago

Removed edms link in meantime.

dracos commented 5 years ago

Is up to date again, put back.

MyfanwyNixon commented 4 years ago

A user has pointed out that the EDM link on https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25920/gagan_mohindra/south_west_hertfordshire goes to http://www.edms.org.uk/mps/25920, currently displaying the message:

"This website has stopped receiving new data as of November 2018. This is due to the new government EDM portal re-design which scrapped the XML data feed which I was using to import data."

The message links to https://edm.parliament.uk/ so I suppose an enterprising user can still find what they need, with another click.