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API for agenda details

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8 years 10 months ago #58223 by bgailer@gmail.com
I add my plus 1 to this. I have laboriously written code to automate the process; it has been an enormous and moving target venture. Given the amount of interest as expressed in this forum can we make this a priority feature request?

I have been lax in pursuing the status that would give me access to the FTH innards I have also seen the possibility of contributing to creating this feature. What would my next step be toward gaining developer / maintainer status?

Bob Gailer
Hillsborough Toastmasters Club 2968618
Windows 10
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7 years 11 months ago #64487 by jaymartin7
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+1

I'm curious, when you are scraping the agenda page, do you authenticate to the club site within your script or are you grabbing from some secondary source, such as generated by the "print" button?

I'm trying to scrape the html using an http/get command with and without basic auth and not finding the expected fields in the resulting data. I assume this is related to the above-mentioned difficulties that result from how the page/system is coded.

Are there any helpful resources you've found that might get me over this hump?

My best : )
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7 years 11 months ago #64489 by Brian
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You need to be logged in to see the Agenda.
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7 years 11 months ago #64490 by jaymartin7
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Thank you, Brian. I'm attempting to authenticate programmatically using an http library with the typical
Code:
get
command. I've tried passing my credentials using basic auth and I see what looks looks a portion of the correct html source, but I don't see the text "Presiding" as in Presiding Officer, which I can clearly see when I'm looking at the page or its source in my browser.

If anyone has had any luck scraping the page over http, any tips are welcome. I'll report my progress soon.
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7 years 11 months ago #64491 by Brian
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Sorry we do not provide that kind of information.
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7 years 11 months ago #64530 by jaymartin7
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I completely understand the need to support only the core functionality of the site, Brian. I'm grateful for the support work you all do to make this platform so effective for so many.

As a work around, I'll attempt to write my first Chrome extension. My assumption is that the extension should have access to the full content of the agenda when I'm logged in, unlike my shell based script. I'll test this assumption and report my findings. My best : )
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