puerto-rico-legislation/pr-legislation/readme.md

PR LEGISLATION

Making the legislation process in puerto rico more transparent

Scrape legislation past and present

http://www.tucamarapr.org/dnncamara/web/ActividadLegislativa/tramitelegislativo.aspx?measureid=XXXX

contents to be retrieved and stored as JSON files to be processed later save as documents/{measure_name}.es.json

measure {
    Measure Name :: string
    Date Filed :: date
    Authors :: string[]
    Heading :: string
    History :: History[]
}

History {
    Date :: date
    Description :: string 
    Document :: string (url)
}

download all associated documents

save contents to folders documents/{measure_name}/{history_date}.{history_description}.pdf

Scrape vote date ??? how to find vote IDs? aspx sucks

http://www.tucamarapr.org/dnncamara/web/ActividadLegislativa/votaciones.aspx?measureid=XXX&voteid=???

translation

translate documents/{measure_name}.es.json into documents/{measure_name}.en.json

create table html

index page for es/en filter by measure id/heading substring/authors

generate html for each measure

convert json files into static html files for es/en