A Node.js screen scraper for accessing legislation from the Parliament of Australia.
Civic engagement is important. The operations of the Parliament of Australia are relatively inaccessible to the average citizen. By providing developers with easy access to the laws through a simple api will hopefully encourage developers to create new ways of involving people into the democractic process.
The Parliament does not currently provide any API to access legislation, although all legislation is made available across a few publically accessible websites:
This module scrapes data from the following websites:
npm install openparl-law
ComLaw = require 'openparl-law'
ComLaw.actSeries(id)-