Open dwillis opened 9 years ago
Now that they've (sorta) released the .xls version spec files, would be great to generate the relevant sources dir--or maybe paper_sources? However you want to do it, if there's a place it exists I'd be happy to help on this. I can't remember if fech can do this automatically or not...
I'm starting to build these. Don't have a great pipeline, as this really requires matching the same variables to the electronic versions of the same file; in some cases the variables do seem different.
First ones are here: https://github.com/jsfenfen/paper_fec/tree/master/parsing/paper_sources
Thus far the versions seem to be pretty consistent.
Cool, thanks! If it's ok, I'll grab these for Fech and build off that.
Absolutely, go for it.
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Cool, thanks! If it's ok, I'll grab these for Fech and build off that.
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Cross-note: 18F/FEC#14
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FEC has machine-readable records for paper filings here: ftp://ftp.fec.gov/FEC/paper/