Web Scraping Fridays

Schedule

- Aug 14
- Aug 28
- Sep 11
- Sep 25

Examples

wget https://www.congress.gov/search?q={%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22114%22}&pageSize=250

for each in `cat ./search\?q\=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22congress%22%3A%22114%22%7D\&pageSize\=250 | sed -n "s/.*H\.R\.\([0-9]\{1,\}\).*/\1/p"`; do { wget https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/$each/text?format=txt; } done;

cat rh\?format\=txt | sed "/.*pre>/{s/.*\(pre>\)/FOUNDME:\1/;:a;N;s/^\(FOUNDME:pre>\n\(\|FOUNDME:.*\n\)\{0,\}\)\(.*\)/\1FOUNDMORE:\3/;;s/FOUNDMORE/FOUNDME/;ta}"| grep FOUNDME | sed "/.*div>/{s/.*\(div>\)//;:a;N;s/.*//;;s/FOUNDME//;ta;}" | less

cat rh\?format\=txt | sed "/.*pre>/{s/.*\(pre>\)/FOUNDME:\1/;:a;N;s/^\(FOUNDME:pre>\n\(\|FOUNDME:.*\n\)\{0,\}\)\(.*\)/\1FOUNDME:\3/;ba}"| sed -n "s/FOUNDME://p"  | sed "/.*div>/{s/.*\(div>\)//;:a;N;s/.*//;ba;}" | less