On 25 March 2010 14:45, Tim Duckett <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies in advance if this is a case of me not RTFMing - but I'm looking > for an XML-based API that would provide access to historical data for > electoral results. Basically, what I'm after is the source data that makes > up the 'Election Record' section of MP's pages on the BBC Democracy Live > site, e.g: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/27859.stm > > Although the Beeb's done a nice job of marking up the HTML so it could be > scraped, it would be *much* nicer if there was an API somewhere that could > provide this. > > Does anybody know of such a source?
Perhaps David Boothroyd would welcome some help in app-ifying his extensive data? jh _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
