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FOIA-scrapers-in-Brazil

These scrapers were built in Python/Selenium. They save all FOIA requests (Freedom of Information or Lei de Acesso à Informação in Portuguese) sent by Brazilian citizens in a spreadsheet based on a specific keyword.

The first scraper, "Raspador de decisões da CGU com o termo LGPD no texto.ipynb", creates a spreadsheet containing all those FOIA requests that were denied by the federal government because of alleged sensitive/personal information. The second scraper, "pedidos_sobre_Bolsonaro_no_FALABR.ipynb", creates a spreadsheet containing all FOIA requests and answers for those requests in the last 30 days (it is possible to change the time) for a specific keyword.

If you want more details, please see a PDF presentation here

This scraper was built as part of a introduction to programming class at the Columbia University - Master of Science in Data Journalism