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ssempervirens / alec-scraper.py
Created October 29, 2019 17:39
A scraper I wrote to fetch the American Legislative Exchange Council's latest legislation for a project investigating legislative influence of lobbyists.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import csv
from dateutil.parser import parse
import time
def scrape_page(url, f):
r = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, "html.parser")
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import csv
from dateutil.parser import parse
import time
def scrape_page(url, f):
r = requests.get(url).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, "html.parser")

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