north herts

cgi-bin/NorthHerts.cgi

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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use CGI qw(:cgi);
+use HTML::TreeBuilder;
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+use XML::Writer;
+
+# The master URLs for the North Hertfordshire planning search
+our $SearchURL = "http://www.north-herts.gov.uk/dcdataonline/Pages/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.pgesearch";
+
+# We're a CGI script...
+my $query = CGI->new();
+
+# Get the date to fetch
+my $date = $query->param("day") . "/" . $query->param("month") . "/" . $query->param("year");
+
+# Construct an LWP user agent
+our $UA = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1);
+
+# Fetch the search page
+my $page = do_get($SearchURL);
+
+# Find the form submission URL
+my $form = $page->look_down("_tag" => "form", name => "frmSearch");
+my $url = URI->new_abs($form->attr("action"), $SearchURL);
+
+# Do the search
+$page = do_post($url, {"regdate1" => $date, "regdate2" => $date});
+
+# Output an HTTP response header
+print $query->header(-type  => "text/xml");
+
+# Create an XML output stream
+my $Writer = XML::Writer->new(DATA_MODE => 1);
+
+# Output the XML header data
+$Writer->xmlDecl("UTF-8");
+$Writer->startTag("planning");
+$Writer->dataElement("authority_name", "North Hertfordshire District Council");
+$Writer->dataElement("authority_short_name", "North Hertfordshire");
+$Writer->startTag("applications");
+
+# Process each table of the results
+foreach my $table ($page->look_down("_tag" => "table", "class" => "results-table"))
+{
+    my @rows = map { $_->look_down("_tag" => "td") } $table->look_down("_tag" => "tr");
+    my $reference = $rows[0]->as_trimmed_text;
+    my $infourl = $rows[0]->look_down("_tag" => "a")->attr("href");
+    my $date = $rows[1]->as_trimmed_text;
+    my $address = $rows[3]->as_trimmed_text;
+    my $description = $rows[4]->as_trimmed_text;
+    my $postcode;
+
+    if ($address =~ /\s+([A-Z]+\d+\s+\d+[A-Z]+)$/)
+    {
+        $postcode = $1;
+    }
+
+    $Writer->startTag("application");
+    $Writer->dataElement("council_reference", $reference);
+    $Writer->dataElement("address", $address);
+    $Writer->dataElement("postcode", $postcode);
+    $Writer->dataElement("description", $description);
+    $Writer->dataElement("info_url", $infourl);
+    $Writer->dataElement("comment_url", "mailto:service\@north-herts.gov.uk?subject=Comment on Planning Application");
+    $Writer->dataElement("date_received", $date);
+    $Writer->endTag("application");
+}
+
+# Finish off XML output
+$Writer->endTag("applications");
+$Writer->endTag("planning");
+$Writer->end();
+
+exit 0;
+
+# Make a GET request
+sub do_get
+{
+    my $response = $UA->get(@_);
+
+    die $response->status_line unless $response->is_success;
+
+    return HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($response->content);
+}
+
+# Make a POST request
+sub do_post
+{
+    my $response = $UA->post(@_, Content_Type => "form-data");
+
+    die $response->status_line unless $response->is_success;
+
+    return HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($response->content);
+}