Scrape and parse UK Parliament APPG HTML registers into structured JSON data.
npx skills add https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot --skill uk-parliament-appg
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: uk-parliament-appg Source: https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot/tree/main/skills/appg Command: npx skills add https://github.com/danbri/forgetmenot --skill uk-parliament-appg
This skill solves the lack of a formal JSON API for All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) data by providing a robust scraper that parses static HTML registers published by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
Use the uk-parliament-appg skill to crawl the latest register and output the group data as a JSON file.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To extract UK All-Party Parliamentary Group data, this skill scrapes static HTML registers from publications.parliament.uk and normalizes disparate table layouts into consistent, machine-readable JSON schemas for group membership and financial interests.
Yes, you can get APPG financial interests and officer lists as structured JSON by parsing the unstructured HTML group pages, which converts parliamentary records into clean data records including contact details and cross-party officers.
The best way to programmatically access APPG records without a formal JSON API is using standard web scraping techniques to crawl the official publications site, discover group editions, and output the extracted register data as a JSON file.
Yes, scraping the parliamentary transparency register requires active network access to publications.parliament.uk to retrieve the static HTML pages published by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for parsing.
To map cross-party collaboration, you extract officer lists from multiple APPGs to identify which MPs and Peers are collaborating on specific policy subjects, facilitating research into parliamentary transparency and relationships.
A key limitation when parsing historical APPG register HTML layouts is normalizing disparate table structures into consistent schemas, as the static HTML records published by Parliament vary in format across different editions and time periods.
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