I believe this data is provided to the BBC by Dods under licence, and I
doubt that their contract will allow it to be passed on for reuse by other
people (we [Goveval] used to have a similar contract with the BBC and I
can't imagine that Dods are more generous than us).
You may well decide that this information is in the public domain and that
you are therefore allowed to scrape it, but I can't comment on that. It's
unlikely that you will get the BBC to give you it, though.
Wikipedia might be the best option as Matthew suggests.
Leigh.
On 25 March 2010 14:45, Tim Duckett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apologies in advance if this is a case of me not RTFMing - but I'm looking
> for an XML-based API that would provide access to historical data for
> electoral results. Basically, what I'm after is the source data that makes
> up the 'Election Record' section of MP's pages on the BBC Democracy Live
> site, e.g:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/27859.stm
>
> Although the Beeb's done a nice job of marking up the HTML so it could be
> scraped, it would be *much* nicer if there was an API somewhere that could
> provide this.
>
> Does anybody know of such a source?
>
> Thanks, Tim
>
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