Hi all, Thanks for expressing an interest, and so quickly!
The reason I suggested screen scraping was because I was really hoping this might be something that could be done without knocking Louise off the 300+ open tickets she has in her github to do list at the moment! However, if it can't really be done reasonably without an API then don't worry, it was just a long shot. night, Tom On 7 September 2011 21:33, Ryan Cullen <[email protected]> wrote: > Like Sam said if you could add something simple like returning json by > appending .json to the end that would be great. > Also looking at the source I can see Campaign IDs, do you either have an API > for ID->slug or a different url format which accepts the ID > eg http://www.fixmytransport.com/campaign.php?id=146 as then the ID could be > used in the short url? > Ryan Cullen > > http://blog.artesea.co.uk > @artesea > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:54, Ryan Cullen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/tom%40tomsteinberg.co.uk > _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
