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Re: Scraping election results..

Posted by Daniel Haran on Oct 15, 2008; 2:42pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Scraping-election-results-tp1344p1345.html

Robin scraped some candidate data:
http://cancan.waglo.com/dataface/

For elected candidates, I wrote
http://rubyforge.org/projects/mp-ca-scraper/ last year, which may
still be useful.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Russell McOrmond <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>  Curious if anyone is taking
> http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainCandidatesCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
> and turning it into a database?  I'm otherwise going to spend some time on
> it.
>
>  The link to the riding has the electoral district in the resulting page (as
> part of the link to elections Canada)
>
>  The link to the winning candidates points to full information for those who
> are incumbents (email, websites, etc).
>
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