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I can program so scraping is pretty easy. Finding data sets that aren't restricted is the hard part. Thanks for the links.

• danso 10y ago
  If you have an interest in U.S. politics, check out the github/unitedstates repo, which is full of data and assets, particularly about legislators and their votes: https://github.com/unitedstates https://github.com/unitedstates Sunlight Labs, the tech arm of the Sunlight Foundation, is sadly closing down, but they passed many of their projects to ProPublica. Here's a writeup of that to give an idea of what the projects contained (in terms of data): https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/sunlight-labs-takeover-update https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/sunlight-labs-takeover... Just in case you don't care about the U.S., it must be mentioned that the UK has the best country-level data repository: https://data.gov.uk/ https://data.gov.uk/