Edit: https://data.mysociety.org/datasets/uk-hansard/ is what we will probably use instead of scraping. Thanks, #fediverse!

Do I know anyone (who knows someone else) who is working on #Hansard online? I'm trying to help a researcher get texts from UK parliamentary debates around a set of topics. We'd like to get permission to scrape, but her scraper gets blocked and her emails go unanswered.

Boosts welcome.

#ukpol #WebScraping

https://hansard.parliament.uk/

Some degree of acknowledgement should go to Steve Darling, #LiberalDemocrats member of the House of Commons for #Torbay, for getting "Putin's patsy!" on the record about #NigelFarage .

#Hansard usually does not record shouted insults, as you can see from the very same debate's record.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-10-29/debates/6960AC63-ADF5-4918-AC74-9D37DF5F6D16/EuropeanConventionOnHumanRights(Withdrawal)#contribution-E96977CE-7E46-4F55-8CA9-9EA9AFE9A36D

#HouseOfCommons #UKPolitics #ReformUKLtd #SteveDarling #Putinism #ECHR

#TransUK #Hansard

Gender Self-identification
Volume 767: debated on Monday 19 May 2025

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-05-19/debates/2801067E-044C-4628-A022-FC405ABBA9DA/GenderSelf-Identification