scraper.rb

# require 'scraperwiki'
# require 'mechanize'
# require 'date'
#
# url = 'http://www.charterstowers.qld.gov.au/recently-submitted-applications'
# agent = Mechanize.new
#
# page = agent.get url
#
# table = page.search(:table).last
#
# table.search(:tr).each_with_index do |row,number|
#   next if number == 0 # Skip header
#
#   columns = row.search(:td)
#
#
#   date_received = Date.strptime(columns[1].inner_text.strip, '%d/%m/%Y') rescue nil
#
#   record = {
#     council_reference: columns[0].inner_text,
#     date_received:     date_received,
#     description:       columns[3].inner_text,
#     address:           "#{columns[4].inner_text}, QLD",
#     info_url:          url,
#     comment_url:       'mailto:mail@charterstowers.qld.gov.au',
#     date_scraped:      Date.today
#   }
#   # puts record.to_yaml
#   ScraperWiki.save_sqlite([:council_reference], record)
# end

puts "Broken scraper. Commented out to make it less noisy"
puts "See https://github.com/planningalerts-scrapers/issues/issues/79"