Tom is there an API to get the campaign info from, instead of scraping? Either way pretty easy to knock something up (just not sure I'm awake enough to do it tonight before someone else does it)
Ryan On Sep 7, 2011 7:42 PM, "Tom Steinberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is one of my occasional 'would anyone feel like hacking this as a > volunteer?' appeals. Here goes... > > I'm spending a fair bit of time leaving comments on FixMyTransport > problems, suggesting what people might do in order to get the things > they want fixing, fixed. > > Quite often, the honest answer is that the best thing that they can > probably do is print a page of A4 with an appeal, and stick it on/next > to the bus stop where they wait for their problematic bus. > > What would be REALLY COOL is this - a web page where I could stick the > URL of a campaign page, which it would then scrape in order to produce > a PDF or easy-to-print HTML page containing: > > a) The appeal text printed really big, saying something like "Please > support my attempt to persuade Arriva to run this bus on time" > > b) The more details text printed slightly smaller > > c) An easy to read short URL, printed quite big - along with some > words which say "To sign up on your phone, open this URL" > > d) A QR code for the cool kids. > > If someone would hack this for me then me, Myf and the emerging new > generation of volunteers could use it all the time make nice little > printable pages for FMT users, which we'd post as links on their > pages. > > Is there anyone in here who would be kind enough to give this a go? Or > a pair of people who might work together? > > thanks! > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/ryancullen%40artesea.co.uk
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