Open States scrapers, adapted for Montana

Adapted from https://github.com/openstates/openstates-scrapers.

Commands

This assumes Docker is installed and running. See the OpenStates getting started guide.

Full scrape with vote event cache

npm run scrape

Writes to _cache and _data folders (left untracked by version control).

If you have done a local scrape before, this script will create a temporary cache in _cached_votes of any vote events from your last scrape to avoid requesting and parsing the same vote events again. After a full scrape, this folder will be deleted.

Full scrape without vote event cache

npm run scrape-no-cache will ignore your previous scraped vote events and run a full scrape without using the cache. Once you run this, you can't get your previously scraped vote events back again.

Single bill scrape

• Contributor's Guide
• Documentation
• Open States Issues
• Open States Discussions
• Code of Conduct