I've started work on a separate parser for some of the FTP data offered by the FEC; that code is here for now: https://github.com/dwillis/FecFTP. So far it offers a wrapper to committee, candidate and committee contribution files (the individual file seems probably too big to process quickly, but it could be done).
The question I raise is whether that effort should be part of Fech or kept separately. We've tried to keep Fech fairly clean in the past, and I understand the reasons for doing so, but was wondering if we should revisit that practice. Any thoughts?
I've started work on a separate parser for some of the FTP data offered by the FEC; that code is here for now: https://github.com/dwillis/FecFTP. So far it offers a wrapper to committee, candidate and committee contribution files (the individual file seems probably too big to process quickly, but it could be done).
The question I raise is whether that effort should be part of Fech or kept separately. We've tried to keep Fech fairly clean in the past, and I understand the reasons for doing so, but was wondering if we should revisit that practice. Any thoughts?