Re: [datameet] Google Civic API

Interesting Vinay... Would you mind writing a blogpost about this for DataMeet.org? Nisha On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Vinay Venu wrote: > I tried spiking out a similar API last week, and parts of it look pretty > easy to build. I tried to merge data from the shape files with datameet > <

Re: [datameet] SOS: Need help extracting data

We downloaded it all manually. However unable to merge them. The text is in Kannada, and may be unclear even if we are able to extract it. We have anyway merged some data manually, from these 190+ files to existing data we had already prepared. Digitizing it all starting from the affidavit filing s

Re: [datameet] SOS: Need help extracting data

Hi Shree, You would want to write a script which can scrape the data from the website. This can be automated using Python, mechanize library (with support for doPostBack calls as in these webpages). Once downloaded, PDFs can be combined using PDFtk library (one among different methods). Then, XPD

[datameet] SOS: Need help extracting data

This link has form 7 (list of candidates) for all contesting candidates for BBMP polls 2015. Typically all pdfs, scanned and uploaded. Language: Kannada http://117.247.176.82/ Is there a way to download it all and merge into one document or a table that represents the list of all candidates for all

Re: [datameet] Google Civic API

I tried spiking out a similar API last week, and parts of it look pretty easy to build. I tried to merge data from the shape files with datameet with MP information provided in http://sansad.co. Sansad provides its API from PRS . Here