Hi. So in looking at the site, it appears you first have to have the "recipient name" that you want to start the search with. This would be a list that you'd start with.
It also appears that the 1st/search page is a normal form, that you can generate a url containing the "recipientname" in the var/form elelement. Yu can check with something live livehttpheaders for firefox. If you're note familiar with this tool, basically it allows you to see what's being passed back/forth between the browser/server in terms of packets/data/referrers/post/get types, etc... Once you have that,, it appears that you then need to traverse the returned list of "donors" for the recipient, to generate the list you want.. So, a couple of functions, some xpath/regex, should get you there.. Keep posting, someone will help with the actual code if you need... !! On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Adelaide Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I work for a newspaper and we are compiling a spreadsheet of political > donors that gave money to candidates. The website we are using, Secretary of > State Nevada > <https://nvsos.gov/SOSCandidateServices/AnonymousAccess/CEFDSearchUU/Search.aspx#contribution_search> > allows us to download into a CSV everything except the addresses of the > donors (which are available after you click on the link to each specific > donor). For example, if you enter "Lucy Flores" as the "recipient name" (NOT > contributor name) you get a list of donors that starts with 31st Ward > Regular Democratic Organization, A.N.L.V. Cab Company, AAJ PAC, etc. All we > need is the address (street, city, zip) for each of these. > > I have some Python experience but have not used Scrapy before. I would like > to know what steps to take to get the addresses we need. Please advise! > > Thanks in advance, > Adelaide > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "scrapy-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
