From 2f8a9842cfe274087d5957afe62daea86b680432 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "duncan.parkes" <duncan.parkes@cf68f80a-222c-0410-aabe-5f79d0504a29>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:28:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Matt Ford's scraper for wealden.

---
 trunk/docs/scrapers/wealden.php | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 153 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 trunk/docs/scrapers/wealden.php

diff --git a/trunk/docs/scrapers/wealden.php b/trunk/docs/scrapers/wealden.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d8bdf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trunk/docs/scrapers/wealden.php
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+<?php
+//
+// Scraper for Wealden District Council Planning Website
+// Created by Matt Ford on Sunday 24th August 2008
+//
+// The script works according to requirements of PlanningAlerts.com
+// The default output is according to PlanningAlerts requirements,
+// to get all the data add 'all=true' to the end of the query string
+//
+// You need to set the location of the 'cookie jar'  for the scraper to work
+$cookiejar = '/tmp/wealden_cookies.txt';
+
+//Check a day is set and is valid
+$day = (isset($_GET['day']) && !empty($_GET['day']) && $_GET['day'] > 0 && $_GET['day'] < 32) ? $_GET['day'] : 1;
+
+//Check a month is set and is valid
+$month = (isset($_GET['month']) && !empty($_GET['month']) && $_GET['month'] > 0 && $_GET['month'] < 13) ? $_GET['month'] : 1;
+
+//Check a year is set and is valid
+$year = (isset($_GET['year']) && !empty($_GET['year']) && $_GET['year'] > 2003 && $_GET['year'] <= gmdate('Y')) ? $_GET['year'] : gmdate('Y');
+
+//Do you want all information or only the common stuff?
+$all = (isset($_GET['all']) && $_GET['all'] != false) ? true : false;
+
+$date = $day.'/'.$month.'/'.$year;
+
+$applications = array();
+
+function fetch_page($url,$post_string = false,$post_count = false) {
+	if(!isset($ch)) {
+		$ch = curl_init();
+	}
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);	
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiejar);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiejar);
+	if($post_count > 0) {
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, $post_count);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post_string);		
+	}
+	$data = curl_exec($ch);
+	return $data;
+}
+
+function extract_data($string) {
+	list($junk,$return) = explode('</h5>',$string);
+	return trim(strip_tags($return));
+}
+
+function parse_search($date,$page_no=1,$AppRef='') {
+	global $applications;
+
+	$url = 'http://www.planning.wealden.gov.uk/aspxpages/SearchResults.aspx?pageno='.$page_no.'&QueryType=9&WeekNo=&WeekStart=&WeekEnd=&CaseNo=&Add=&ShowInd=&DocId=&AppRef='.$AppRef.'&Category=DC&DateType=R&StartDate='.$date.'&EndDate='.$date.'&Agent=&ParishCode=&WardCode=&Parish=&Ward=&AdvAppNo=&AdvAdd=&AdvProposal=&DecisionCode=&Det=';
+	//echo 'Loading page '.$page_no.' of data for '.$date.' URL:'.$url.'<br />';
+
+	$data = fetch_page($url);
+	if(strpos($data,"<title>Wealden District Council's applications online - Copyright, disclaimer & personal data</title>")) {
+		//Accept their terms
+		list($junk,$viewstate) = explode('<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" value="',$data,2);
+		list($viewstate,$junk) = explode('" />',$viewstate,2);
+		//echo 'Attempting to bypass copyright page...<br />';
+		$url = 'http://www.planning.wealden.gov.uk/aspxpages/Copyright.aspx?pageno='.$page_no.'&QueryType=9&WeekNo=&WeekStart=&WeekEnd=&CaseNo=&Add=&ShowInd=&DocId=&AppRef='.$AppRef.'&Category=DC&DateType=R&StartDate='.$date.'&EndDate='.$date.'&Agent=&ParishCode=&WardCode=&Parish=&Ward=&AdvAppNo=&AdvAdd=&AdvProposal=&DecisionCode=&Det=';
+		$data = fetch_page($url,'btnCopyrightAccept=Accept&__VIEWSTATE='.urlencode($viewstate).'',2);
+	}
+	list($junk,$data) = explode('<span id="lblSearchResults">', $data);
+	list($data,$next_page) = explode('<div id="pagenumbers">',$data);
+	$data = explode('</ul>',$data);
+	unset($data[10]);
+	foreach($data as $application) {
+		$application = explode('</li>',$application);
+		$AppNo = extract_data($application[0]);
+		if(!empty($AppNo)) {
+			$applications[$AppNo]['AppNo'] = $AppNo;
+			$Loc = extract_data($application[1]);
+			$applications[$AppNo]['Address'] = $Loc;
+			preg_match("/([A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][0-9A-Z]?\s?[0-9][A-Z]{2})/",$Loc,$PostCode);
+			if(isset($PostCode[1])) {
+				$applications[$AppNo]['PostCode'] = $PostCode[1];
+			} else {
+				$applications[$AppNo]['PostCode'] = false;
+			}
+			$applications[$AppNo]['Info'] = extract_data($application[2]);
+			parse_detail($AppNo);
+		}
+	}
+	if(strpos($next_page,'Next</a></div></span> <br />')) {
+		$page_no++;
+		//echo "Loading next page...";
+		if($page_no < 6) {
+			parse_search($date,$page_no,$AppNo);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+function parse_detail($AppNo) {
+	global $applications;
+	$url = 'http://www.planning.wealden.gov.uk/aspxpages/ResultsDetail.aspx?appref='.$AppNo.'&Category=DC';
+	list($junk,$data) = explode('<span id="lblSearchDetails">',fetch_page($url),2);
+	list($data,$junk) = explode('<div class="linkborder">',$data,2);
+	$data = explode('</li>',$data);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['AppType'] = extract_data($data[1]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['DateRec'] = extract_data($data[2]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['DateExp'] = extract_data($data[3]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['Parish'] = extract_data($data[6]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['GridRef'] = extract_data($data[7]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['UPRN'] = extract_data($data[8]);
+	list($status,$junk) = explode(' - ',extract_data($data[9]));
+	$applications[$AppNo]['Status'] = trim($status);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['DateConExp'] = extract_data($data[10]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['DateComDel'] = extract_data($data[11]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['Decision'] = extract_data($data[12]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['DateDec'] = extract_data($data[13]);
+	$applications[$AppNo]['CaseOfficer'] = extract_data($data[14]);
+}
+parse_search($date);
+
+header("Content-Type: text/xml");
+echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";
+echo "<planning>\n";
+echo "\t<authority_name>Wealden</authority_name>\n";
+echo "\t<authority_short_name>Wealden</authority_short_name>\n";
+echo "\t<applications>\n";
+foreach($applications as $application) {
+	echo "\t\t<application>\n";
+	echo "\t\t\t<council_reference>".$application['AppNo']."</council_reference>\n";
+	echo "\t\t\t<address>".$application['Address']."</address>\n";
+	echo "\t\t\t<postcode>".$application['PostCode']."</postcode>\n";
+    echo "\t\t\t<description>".$application['Info']."</description>\n";
+    echo "\t\t\t<info_url><![CDATA[http://www.planning.wealden.gov.uk/aspxpages/ResultsDetail.aspx?appref=".$application['AppNo']."&Category=DC]]></info_url>\n";
+	echo "\t\t\t<comment_url>planning@wealden.gov.uk</comment_url>\n";
+	echo "\t\t\t<date_received>".$application['DateRec']."</date_received>\n";
+	if($all) {
+		echo "\t\t\t<application_type>".$application['AppType']."</application_type>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<date_expires>".$application['DateExp']."</date_expires>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<parish>".$application['Parish']."</parish>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<grid_reference>".$application['GridRef']."</grid_reference>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<uprn>".$application['UPRN']."</uprn>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<status>".$application['Status']."</status>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<consultation_expiry_date>".$application['DateConExp']."</consultation_expiry_date>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<committee_delegated_date>".$application['DateComDel']."</committee_delegated_date>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<decision>".$application['Decision']."</decision>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<decision_date>".$application['DateDec']."</decision_date>\n";
+		echo "\t\t\t<case_officer>".$application['CaseOfficer']."</case_officer>\n";
+	}
+	echo "\t\t</application>\n";
+}
+echo "\t</applications>\n";
+echo "</planning>";
+?>
+