🏗 Build Spider: Cincinnati Board of Education #12
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WalkthroughA new spider for scraping Cincinnati Board of Education meeting data has been developed. The spider is designed to retrieve meeting information from an API endpoint, parse JSON responses, and extract relevant meeting details. It focuses on meetings within the last 12 months, creating structured Changes
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participant Spider as CinohBoardOfEdSpider
participant API as Meeting Data API
participant Parser as JSON Parser
participant Meeting as Meeting Object
Spider->>API: Request meeting data
API-->>Spider: Return JSON response
Spider->>Parser: Parse JSON data
Parser-->>Spider: Extract meeting details
Spider->>Meeting: Create Meeting objects
Meeting-->>Spider: Return parsed meetings
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Actionable comments posted: 1
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city_scrapers/spiders/cinoh_Board_of_Ed.py (2)
73-81: Consider distinguishing multiple document links.If future requirements expand (e.g., separate Zoom link, minutes, attachments), consider returning multiple link entries with more specific titles.
19-23: Potential future enhancement to parse second API endpoint.You mentioned there's a second endpoint that’s currently unused. If it provides additional meeting details or ensures completeness, consider adding a second request/parse flow in the future.
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city_scrapers/spiders/cinoh_Board_of_Ed.py(1 hunks)tests/files/cinoh_Board_of_Ed.json(1 hunks)tests/test_cinoh_Board_of_Ed.py(1 hunks)
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tests/test_cinoh_Board_of_Ed.py
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city_scrapers/spiders/cinoh_Board_of_Ed.py (3)
23-26: Good use of FormRequest to handle form data.
This approach ensures correct server interaction and clean request handling.
28-45: Validate date filtering and iteration logic.
The logic to skip meetings older than 12 months helps keep the dataset relevant. Confirm this aligns with project requirements (some boards may post older meeting data retroactively).
65-71: Classification logic looks appropriate.
The classification covers committee, board, or default. This improves clarity if more categories are introduced in the future.
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Remove unused imports.
NOT_CLASSIFIED and BOARD aren't used anywhere, so please remove them to avoid clutter and improve maintainability.
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5-5: city_scrapers_core.constants.NOT_CLASSIFIED imported but unused
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5-5: city_scrapers_core.constants.BOARD imported but unused
Remove unused import
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What's this PR do?
This PR creates a new scraper for the Cincinnati Board of Education website at URL: https://go.boarddocs.com/oh/cps/Board.nsf/Public#tab-welcome
Why are we doing this?
Scraper requested from this spreadsheet.
Steps to manually test
Monitor the output and ensure no errors are raised.
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test_output.csvto ensure the data looks valid.Are there any smells or added technical debt to note?
It scrapes one of two API endpoints found after clicking on a meeting within the table.
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