codeforsanjose/city-agenda-scraper

Upload reports/agendas to DocumentCloud and figure out tagging

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#23 opened on Apr 30, 2021

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The Stanford team has a DC account and has uploaded a ton of documents already: https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=project%3Aagenda-watch-bay-area-le-202027. Unfortunately we don't really have write/upload access so we can't put in the Legistar documents, which the Stanford team doesn't cover.

While we get ready with our Legistar documents, it would be great to look into how to use the API to upload and tag documents by committee automatically.

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Research direction
Investigate the DocumentCloud API documentation for upload and tagging endpoints. Look into authentication methods (API key or OAuth). Determine how to map committee information to tags.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendapi
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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65