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pgh-public-meetings / city-scrapers-pitt

Pittsburgh City Scrapers: sourcing public meetings in Pittsburgh
https://pgh-public-meetings.github.io/events/
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Spider: Penn Hills Public Meetings #136

Open vnbcs opened 4 years ago

vnbcs commented 4 years ago

Spider Name:

penn_hills_public_meetings

Website:

https://pennhills.org/upcoming-events/

Scraping Notes:

interactive calendar. includes both zoning/board/council meetings and stuff like "baby storytime" and "zumba"

maxachis commented 3 years ago

On it

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maxachis commented 3 years ago

This one is interesting: The Penn Hills events section relies on something called the "Savvy Citizens" app, which is apparently designed as a way for local governments to more easily update their constituencies. Thus, the Penn hills website itself doesn't have all of the details, but clicking on the calendar links takes me to the savvycitizenapp website, which does. There is also a section on the SCA website which lists all upcoming events in a manner more easy to parse:

https://savvycitizenapp.com/Community/140

I'll look into this: I just reached out to the app owners about whether there is a way to easily scrape the information.

maxachis commented 3 years ago

Spider and tests made, submitted Pull Request #206.