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🔹 List of Planning Applications for Brent Council
👤 Client: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Member since ****
💰 Price: $24
🚩 Problem: Extract and structure planning application data from the Brent Council planning portal.
📦 Existing: [Brent Council planning portal]

Specifications:

[Target] Extract address, applicant name, contact details (email, website, LinkedIn, mobile) from planning applications submitted in the last year.
[Method] Web scraping of the Brent Council planning portal.
[UI/UX] Not applicable.
[Stack] Python with libraries like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for web scraping; Pandas for data manipulation; JSON for output format.
[Security] Ensure compliance with GDPR and other relevant regulations. Use secure methods to handle sensitive information.
[Format] Output as a structured JSON file.

Workflow:

Access the Brent Council planning portal API or manually navigate through the website to identify the correct data points.
Develop a web scraping script using Python, leveraging BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for efficient data extraction.
Parse and structure the extracted data into a JSON format with fields: address, applicant_name, email, website, LinkedIn, mobile_number.
Test the script on a sample dataset to ensure accuracy and completeness of information.
Run the full scraping process to gather all relevant planning applications from the last 12 months.
Export the structured data into a JSON file for further analysis or integration.