BIG LOCAL NEWS
Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.
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Pinned Repositories
bln-python-client
Python client for the biglocalnews.org API
california-wildfires
Big Local News: investigation into the costs of wildfires across the U.S. with a focus on California
civic-scraper
Tools for downloading agendas, minutes and other documents produced by local government
court-scraper
Scrapers for U.S. county court sites.
local-election-results-etl
Extract, transform and load election results posted online by local U.S. election officials
prefect-flow-template
A template repository with all the fundamentals needed to develop and deploy a Python data-processing routine for Prefect pipelines.
usps
US Addresses Sampler
warn-github-flow
GitHub Action workflow for automating a WARN Act notice ETL pipeline
warn-scraper
Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites
warn-transformer
Consolidate, enrich and republish the data gathered by warn-scraper
BIG LOCAL NEWS's Repositories
biglocalnews/court-scraper
Scrapers for U.S. county court sites.
biglocalnews/civic-scraper
Tools for downloading agendas, minutes and other documents produced by local government
biglocalnews/warn-scraper
Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites
biglocalnews/prefect-flow-template
A template repository with all the fundamentals needed to develop and deploy a Python data-processing routine for Prefect pipelines.
biglocalnews/usps
US Addresses Sampler
biglocalnews/bln-python-client
Python client for the biglocalnews.org API
biglocalnews/california-wildfires
Big Local News: investigation into the costs of wildfires across the U.S. with a focus on California
biglocalnews/warn-github-flow
GitHub Action workflow for automating a WARN Act notice ETL pipeline
biglocalnews/warn-transformer
Consolidate, enrich and republish the data gathered by warn-scraper
biglocalnews/local-election-results-etl
Extract, transform and load election results posted online by local U.S. election officials
biglocalnews/aw-legistar-scraper-selenium
A Legistar scraper for Agenda Watch using Selenium
biglocalnews/bln-web-scraping-tutorial
biglocalnews/clean-scraper
Scraper library and CLI tool to harvest police bodycam footage and other files as part of the Community Law Enforcement Accountability Project (CLEAN)
biglocalnews/reporting-tool
biglocalnews/scraping-workshop
Tutorial on web scraping with Python and PDFs
biglocalnews/upload-files
Upload comma-delimited files to biglocalnews.org in your GitHub Action
biglocalnews/usc-crime-reports-scraper
A GitHub Action workflow for automating the collection of crime and fire logs posted by the University of Southern California's Department of Public Safety.
biglocalnews/covid-world-scraper
scrapers for the pitch map
biglocalnews/covid19-tweets
Big Local News project on Tweets from local government agencies about COVID-19
biglocalnews/warn-california-analysis
An exploration and analysis of the WARN Notices data for California
biglocalnews/.github
Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.
biglocalnews/aw-scripts
Misc scripts and other code bits that haven't graduated to their own repos.
biglocalnews/bln-etl
Utilities for BLN data gathering pipelines.
biglocalnews/bylines
Stories, guides and other articles by the Big Local News team and its partners
biglocalnews/datasette
An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
biglocalnews/datasette.biglocalnews.org
A Datasette instance that allows users to explore public and private files hosted by biglocalnews.org
biglocalnews/gcp-storage-emulator
Local emulator for Google Cloud Storage
biglocalnews/legistar-scraper-demo
Quick-and-dirty demo of a non-Selenium approach to scraping Legistar.
biglocalnews/squarelet
MuckRock User Service
biglocalnews/tile-tools
Tools for working with Mapbox (and similar) tiles.