[CivicAccess-discuss] How will we use data?

[Robin Millette]

Le Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:08 -0400,
Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> a écrit :

>    Building upon Robin's script I scraped a bit more information from 
> the parliament of Canada website.  Turns out that you can check the 
> ProfileMP page using the key provided by the link to candidates as a 
> quick way to determine who the rookie MPs are.

I already have links from EDID to the parliament pages, if you look at
http://cancan.waglo.com/dataface/district/24047 (Outremont)

you'll find a link to Mulcair:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=113956&Language=F

I've had this up for a couple of weeks already. DB and code are all available.

The trick to get this was to search the parliament website for EDID and pull the response from there.

-- 
Robin