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OpenGovernment is a Ruby on Rails application for aggregating and presenting open government data.

Overview

This project powers OpenGovernment.org and was started by the Participatory Politics Foundation.

We hope you'll get involved! Read our Contributors' Guide for details.

  • Mailing list: Join our developer list.
  • IRC: Find us in chat.freenode.net channel #opengovernment.
  • Development Roadmap: December 2012.
  • Project management & bug tracker: to come, will be updated Dec. 2012. Previously on Pivotal Tracker & Lighthouse.

Visit our Wiki for full installation instructions.

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pa-philadelphia María Quiñones-Sánchez page contains unicode chars

Similar to opengovernment/opengovernment-local#9

Error is generated when scraping:

saving Councilmember O'Brien 522f2ce812a96023f0e70e95
saving Councilmember Oh 522f2ce812a96023f0e70e96
saving Councilmember O'Neill 522f2ce812a96023f0e70e97
saving Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./import.py", line 89, in <module>
    print 'saving', member['Person Name'], council_member_id
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

Parameterize scraping

The current scraper hardcodes pa-philadelphia; this scraper should be parameterized so we can scrape different local governments by providing alternate command line arguments.

Could not install pdfminer requirement on CentOS 6.4

Downloading/unpacking pdfminer (from -r /u/apps/legistar-scrape-staging/requirements.txt (line 12))
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pdfminer (from -r /u/apps/legistar-scrape-staging/requirements.txt (line 12)) (from versions: 20100829, 20101226, 20091219, 20100213, 20100327, 20100424, 20100322, 20101017, 20100104, 20110227, 20091129, 20091024, 20100131, 20100619p1, 20110515, dist-20080727, dist-20090201, dist-20080629, dist-20080429, dist-20080906, dist-20090110, dist-20090517, dist-20090117)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for pdfminer (from -r /u/apps/legistar-scrape-staging/requirements.txt (line 12))

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