On 11 November 2010 13:07, Nick Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > At 2010-11-11 12:58:24+0000, Matt Ford writes: >> According to yournextmp.com only 311 constituencies have declared >> election results. I know that at the time of the election the government >> hadn't published vote counts for each candidate and the only sources >> were the BBC and other press. >> >> Now the information is all available here: >> http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/elections/results/general_elections/uk-general-election-2010 >> >> Can this data be scraped and imported en-masse? Much easier than crowd >> sourcing.
Indeed - I shall do that at some point. It is interesting to note that with projects like YourNextMP there is considerable interest right up until after the event - and then it really does die away. Hence the lack of results entered. > I scraped the results from the BBC back in May. > > <http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/2010-general-election-results/> That should help too :) Cheers, Edmund. > Scraping from the electoral commission looks approximately as hard. > > Nick B > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- Edmund von der Burg - [email protected] mob: +44 7903 420 689 web: http://www.ecclestoad.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
