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Task tracking for the crawlers we're working on
https://github.com/orgs/opensanctions/projects/2
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parltrack as source of european MEPs #161

Closed RMHogervorst closed 1 month ago

RMHogervorst commented 3 months ago

Data URL

https://parltrack.org/dumps

Publisher

https://parltrack.org/

Publisher country/territory code

eu

Type of data

PEPs (Politicall Exposed Persons)

Coverage region

region:Europe

Can you tell us more?

I do not know how good the coverage of MEPs is currently, but this dataset would make it much easier to get an overview. The data seems very structured.

tbh I stumbled upon this project on mastodon in the past week and immediately thought of opensanctions, but I did no deep dive into the dataset (there is a separate dump of MEP basic information inclusing twitter handle, first, last name, country etc: https://parltrack.org/schemas/ep_meps ).

This is a suggestion or request

pudo commented 3 months ago

Haha, lovely! I'm a big fan of stf and his work :) We're crawling the official XML about MEPs from the parliament, which seems like a more explainable source.

One day we'll also make good links between parltrack and https://investigraph.eu/ :)