Class: HouseFloorBills::Scraper

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(week = "") ⇒ Scraper

Format of week must be “2017-03-27”



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 4

def initialize(week = "") # Format of week must be "2017-03-27"
  @schedule = HouseFloorBills::Schedule.new
  @doc_schedule = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://docs.house.gov/floor/Default.aspx?date=#{week}"))
end

Instance Attribute Details

#doc_schedule ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute doc_schedule.



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 2

def doc_schedule
  @doc_schedule
end

#schedule ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute schedule.



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 2

def schedule
  @schedule
end

Instance Method Details

#get_congress ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 21

def get_congress
  current_DC_time = Time.now.getlocal('-04:00')
  
  start_of_congress_116 = Time.utc(2019,"jan",3,04,00,0)
  start_of_congress_117 = Time.utc(2021,"jan",3,04,00,0)
  start_of_congress_118 = Time.utc(2023,"jan",3,04,00,0)

  if current_DC_time < start_of_congress_117
    return "116th-congress"
  elsif current_DC_time < start_of_congress_118
    return "117th-congress"
  elsif current_DC_time >= start_of_congress_118
    return "118th-congress"
  end
end

#scrape ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 9

def scrape
  scrape_schedule
  scrape_bills
  @schedule
end

#scrape_bills ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 37

def scrape_bills
  print "\nLoading bills "
  @doc_schedule.search("table.floorItems > tr.floorItem").collect do |floor_item|
    # Instantiate the bill
    b = HouseFloorBills::Bill.new
    # Scrape the data
    b.number = floor_item.css("td.legisNum").text.strip
    b.name = floor_item.css("td.floorText").text.strip
    b.pdf = floor_item.css("td.files a").attr("href").text

    print "."

    # Set URL conditionally, based on type of bill:
    if b.number.split.include? "H.R."
      b.url = "https://www.congress.gov/bill/#{get_congress}/house-bill/#{b.number.split.last}"
    elsif b.number.split.include? "H.Res."
      b.url = "https://www.congress.gov/bill/#{get_congress}/house-resolution/#{b.number.split.last}"
    elsif b.number.split.include? "S."
      b.url = "https://www.congress.gov/bill/#{get_congress}/senate-bill/#{b.number.split.last}"
    else
      b.url = ""
    end

    # Handle error if couldn't get bill URL
    if b.url == ""
      # Set all to blank
      b.sponsor = ""
      b.committees = ""
      b.status = ""
      b.summary = ""
    else
      doc_bill ||= Nokogiri::HTML(open(b.url))
      b.sponsor = doc_bill.search("table.standard01 > tr:first-child a").text.strip
      b.committees = doc_bill.search("table.standard01 > tr:nth-child(2) td").text.strip
      b.status = doc_bill.search("ol.bill_progress li.selected  > text()").text.strip
      b.summary = doc_bill.search("div#bill-summary > p, div#bill-summary li").to_s.gsub("</p>","\n\n").gsub("</li>","\n\n").gsub(/<\/.+>/,"").gsub(/<.+>/,"")
      if b.summary == ""
        b.summary = doc_bill.search("div#main > p").text
      end
    end
    # Add the bill to the schedule
    @schedule.add_bill(b)
  end
end

#scrape_schedule ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/house_floor_bills/scraper.rb', line 15

def scrape_schedule
  # Populate @schedule with more data from the schedule page
  @schedule.title = @doc_schedule.search("div#primaryContent h1 > text()").text.strip.gsub("\r\n      ", " ")
  @schedule.week = @doc_schedule.search("div#primaryContent h1 > text()").text.split("\n").last.strip
end