Matt Carey

Yes, I was wondering if this kind of approach could be used for search forms like the ones Tyler Tech uses. For instance, https://odysseypa.traviscountytx.gov/JPPublicAccess/Search.aspx?ID=900.

An update for people interested in this issue: I didn't have much success trying to parse the witness lists with regexes. (see my [notebook](https://github.com/open-austin/influence-texas/blob/master/notebooks/witness-lists.ipynb) and the [output of that process](https://github.com/open-austin/influence-texas/tree/master/data/witness-lists))....

[Updated.](https://github.com/open-austin/influence-texas/blob/master/notebooks/witness-lists.ipynb) The notebook should be easier to read and I think the output files are about 95% correct. The notebook still just uses regexes, which will never be perfect where...

@jpolache Are you saying you're having trouble adding new lines to the jupyter notebook and rerunning it? I'm not clear on where you got stuck, but maybe you want the...

Fair enough, the code is hard to understand. I just committed a new version of the notebook that hopefully will be a little clearer. I added docstrings for each function....

@jpolache is it possible you only ran the code in that block, but you didn't run the code earlier in the notebook where a list is assigned to the variable...

@jpolache I can't quite tell which regular expression is triggering the error for you. Maybe the issue is that I was running a different version of Python or a library....

@lazarus1331 Yeah, I'll be there. There isn't usually a bunch of time to do project work at the library, but I'll bring my computer.

For scraping captions of bills, we can probably reuse my work [scraping background sections](https://github.com/open-austin/influence-texas/blob/master/notebooks/bill-analysis.ipynb).

Wow, this is an inherently dramatic project (who wouldn't want to stress out over a dashboard showing whether kittens are about to be euthanized?), and it's in a field where...