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Garbage Brown Bin (Garden Waste) [with workaround]

Open StarGateGit opened this issue 8 months ago • 3 comments
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Name of Council

Bromsgrove District Council

Issue Information

This entity is no longer being provided by the uk_bin_collection integration. If the entity is no longer in use, delete it in settings.

Whereas; The Council issued the statement within their info pages-

Granted the page is located elsewhere and the collection page does not include the Garden waste so I guess this is making it awkward/nigh on impossible to include!? Maybe it's easier to order a calendar from them! https://www.bromsgrove.gov.uk/residents/my-place/bins-and-recycling/garden-waste-service/garden-waste-collection-dates-2025/

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The 2025 service starts either Tuesday 25 February or Tuesday 4 March 2025 depending on your collection schedule.

Please select your street name from the table below to see your Garden Waste, brown bin, collection dates for 2025

Verification

  • [x] I searched for similar issues at https://github.com/robbrad/UKBinCollectionData/issues?q=is:issue and found no duplicates
  • [x] I have checked my address/postcode/UPRN works on the council's website
  • [x] I have provided a detailed explanation of the issue as well as steps to replicate the issue
  • [x] I understand that this project is run by volunteer contributors therefore completion of this issue cannot be guaranteed

StarGateGit avatar Feb 27 '25 11:02 StarGateGit

Can data be scraped from the linked pdf on the page?

https://www.bromsgrove.gov.uk/media/5xnlg3nc/bdc-gw-calendar-2025-grey-week.pdf

StarGateGit avatar Mar 12 '25 18:03 StarGateGit

As A workaround, I've created another instance of the integration and altered the grey bin to be the Brown Bin.

StarGateGit avatar Mar 12 '25 19:03 StarGateGit

@StarGateGit Each bin that is returned by the integration is added as an entity but as you have already mentioned, your garden waste bin is no longer being returned which has caused your existing entity to be orphaned.

As the garden waste is now on a year specific page, it may not make sense to include this in the integration as it would likely need further revisions each year to update so it may be worth closing this issue and sticking with your workaround

m26dvd avatar Mar 19 '25 23:03 m26dvd

Also I think the fix for this would somewhat help

https://github.com/robbrad/UKBinCollectionData/issues/1304

and we also now have https://github.com/robbrad/UKBinCollectionData/wiki/Councils#google-calendar-public

Closing issue as I think the above will take care of the ask. Feel free to reopen if not

robbrad avatar Apr 15 '25 19:04 robbrad