Sunlight Labs Looking For Volunteers To Scrape Legislation For All 50 States

We created a site called Fantasy Congress back in college and we are in the middle of transitioning it to a new home. We became good friends with the Sunlight folks while we were in DC before we made JamLegend.

This is an important undertaking (we had talked about this a long time ago) and we'd be happy to talk to anyone interested in our experiences with scraping the federal government, the future of Fantasy Congress, any tips, etc.

Wow this is quite an undertaking. As a test, I went out to my state's website (NE) to see how easy it would be to scrape legislation info. It looks like there's plenty of information available online, however every document they have is available in PDF. Hopefully they aren't encrypted...