getter.coffee.md

getter.coffee.md

Getter is a utility to fetch evidence to Parliamentary committees from data.parliament.uk and make their content available for onward use.

request = require("request")

Cheerio is a helper from Matthew Mueller: http://matthewmueller.github.io/cheerio/

cheerio = require("cheerio")

request "http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/WrittenEvidence.svc/EvidenceHtml/5533", (error, response, body) ->
  if not error and response.statusCode is 200
    $ = cheerio.load(body)
    myString = ""
    myState = "default"
    $("p span").each (index, element) ->
      if ~(element.attribs["style"]).indexOf("bold")
        myString += element.children[0].data
        myState = "[bold]"
      else
        myState = "[normal]"
        myString += element.children[0].data
        myString += "\n"
      myString += myState
      return

    console.log myString
  return

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