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by vr46 54 days ago
Amazing! It’s so bloody hard to access this information or even to know what there is.

Careful not to expose the councils too publicly before they shut you off

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Cheers! Yeah, it's honestly mental how fragmented it is. Every council is its own little island. On the shutting-off worry: the data is statutorily public. Councils are legally required to publish it, and I'm respecting rate limits and not hammering anyone. So far no council has objected. Touch wood this remains the case. Tbh, I think the risk is more from the platform vendors than the councils themselves. It seems Idox etc have a commercial interest in this data being awkward to access.
There was a story how similar initiative for a courts decisions scraping was shut off.