🏗️ Build spider: Morton County Commission

.gitignore

@@ -133,4 +133,5 @@ src/
 logs/*.log
 travis/*.json
 
-# output files: local gitignore added to city_scrapers/local_outputs/
+# output files
+*.csv

Pipfile

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ scrapy = "*"
 scrapy-sentry-errors = "1.0.0"
 city-scrapers-core = {ref = "main", git = "https://github.com/City-Bureau/city-scrapers-core.git", extras = ["azure"]}
 scrapy-wayback-middleware = "*"
+python-dateutil = "*"
 
 [dev-packages]
 freezegun = "*"

city_scrapers/spiders/bisnd_mcc.py

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+from datetime import datetime, time
+
+from city_scrapers_core.constants import COMMISSION
+from city_scrapers_core.items import Meeting
+from city_scrapers_core.spiders import CityScrapersSpider
+from dateutil.parser import parse
+
+
+class BisndMccSpider(CityScrapersSpider):
+    name = "bisnd_mcc"
+    agency = "Morton County Commission"
+    timezone = "America/Chicago"
+    start_urls = [
+        "https://www.mortonnd.org/?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={8182F8B8-3783-4C56-B690-F78FEE7CAC95}"  # noqa
+    ]
+    title = "Morton County Commission Meeting"
+    meeting_time = time(17, 30)
+    location = {
+        "address": "Morton County Commission Room",
+        "name": "Morton County Courthouse, 210 2nd Ave NW, Mandan ND",
+    }
+    custom_settings = {
+        "ROBOTSTXT_OBEY": False,
+    }
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        """
+        Parse HTML table and extract meeting information. Due to a lack of info,
+        we hardcode certain fields, like start time and title
+        """
+        for item in response.css("main[role='main'] table tbody tr:not(:first-child)"):
+            start, description = self._first_col(item)
+            if start is None:
+                self.logger.warning("Invalid date format - skipping")
+                continue
+            # ignore meetings that are more than a year ago
+            if start < datetime.now().replace(year=datetime.now().year - 1):
+                self.logger.info(
+                    f"Skipping meeting from {start} as it is more than a year ago"
+                )
+                continue
+            meeting = Meeting(
+                title=self.title,
+                description=description,
+                classification=COMMISSION,
+                start=start,
+                end=None,
+                all_day=False,
+                time_notes="",
+                location=self.location,
+                links=self._parse_links(item),
+                source=response.url,
+            )
+
+            meeting["status"] = self._get_status(meeting)
+            meeting["id"] = self._get_id(meeting)
+
+            yield meeting
+
+    def _first_col(self, item):
+        """Extract date of the meeting and any additional text from
+        the first column of the table row. Date of the meeting is in
+        "Month Day, Year" format."""
+        col_str = item.css("td span::text").extract_first()
+        description = ""
+
+        # Parse text
+        if col_str is None:
+            self.logger.info("No text found in date column")
+            return None, description
+        col_words = col_str.split()
+        if len(col_words) < 3:
+            # date should always be first three words
+            self.logger.info(f"Invalid date format: {col_words}")
+            return None, description
+        date_str = " ".join(col_words[:3])
+        if len(col_words) > 3:
+            # if there's any other text, use that as the description
+            description = " ".join(col_words[3:])
+
+        # parse date
+        try:
+            parsed_date = parse(date_str)
+            # combine date and time
+            parsed_date = datetime.combine(parsed_date.date(), self.meeting_time)
+            return parsed_date, description
+        except ValueError:
+            self.logger.info(f"Invalid date format: {date_str}")
+            return None, description
+
+    def _parse_links(self, item):
+        """Parse or generate links."""
+        links = []
+        for row in item.css("td:not(:first-child) a"):
+            link = {
+                "title": row.css("::text").extract_first(),
+                "href": row.css("::attr(href)").extract_first(),
+            }
+            links.append(link)
+        return links