Re: Avoiding parl.gc.ca duplication of efforts.

Posted by Cory Horner on Feb 17, 2006; 9:07am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Avoiding-parl-gc-ca-duplication-of-efforts-tp270p272.html

Russell McOrmond wrote:

>http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E 
>now has the complete list of MPs with links to email addresses, etc.
>
>   I am planning on writing some screen scraping scripts to extract this
>information into a database.
>  
>
>.. each constituency page has an Elections Canada link that has the EDID...
>
Nice!

>   If someone else is already doing this, then I won't bother.  I don't
>have a timeline, but want to get the full list of email addresses into
>digital-copyright.ca soon so that we can launch a "write a letter to
>your MP" campaign.
>  
>
I've been procrastinating on this for a while now, so I should get to
work... i'll aim to have this up within a week or so.

Cheers,
Cory.