demo of this?

[rkendel1]

Would it be possible for someone to give me a demo of this functionality or point me to a running instance of this? Thank you!

[zstumgoren]

@rkendel1 Many thanks for the inquiry and apologies for the late reply. Civic Scraper is an open-source web scraping framework designed to help gather agendas and minutes from various platforms used by government agencies to post documents (e.g. CivicPlus and Legistar). It's still very much a work in progress, but we generally have decent support for one of the more widely used versions of CivicPlus along with a few other platforms.

I should clarify that civic-scraper is designed primarily as a Python library that you can use in your own code to scrape particular websites. Here is the documentation site, where you can find installation and usage information.

We plan to deprecate/remove the command-line usage, so I would focus on using the library in your own Python code (e.g. in a Jupyter Notebook or standard Python script).

Shout back if you have any questions along the way!