Civic Code Refactor

In November of 2024, I spent some time reworking the city council document scraper.

The original scraper was a quick and dirty way to get City Council and Committee meeting documents from the City of Windsor’s website, and into something more accessible. I was happy with the results, but I knew that the code itself was not great, and if the scraper was going to be maintained, it needed to be improved.

With that in mind, I ported the code for the scraper over to civic-code. The code is cleaner, and will be easier to maintain long-term.

The new scraper is still a work in progress, but it is already better than the original.

I’ve also added a new tool, doc-search, which allows you to search, sort, and filter the documents. I’m utilizing this tool to automatically generate updates once a week at City Council Docs. I’m hoping to add more tools in the future, so stay tuned!

Keep coding with purpose! ::dev