Making a website that displays local arrests

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neweaver

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I know this has been popular in the last few years and it is all public information. How do these people get the information? Like a script to pull from the jail intake website?

 

Panther28

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• Apr 12, 2013

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Someone should be able to build you a bot here, as long as you can find a site that regularly updates this info then your halfway there.

 

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neweaver

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I have the sites that display the information. All I need is a way to pull it with a script.

 

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Just steal the RSS feed from a site that does this already and hook up a WP auto poster

 

huser21

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Haha-Sucks when you google your name and your mugshot ranks #1.

 

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neweaver

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Ste Hughes said:

Just steal the RSS feed from a site that does this already and hook up a WP auto poster

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I didn't even think about that. Thank you!

 

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dezzz

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Any decent web programmer should be able to write a script using cURL to pull the data.

 

maineyak

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http://www.jailbase.com/
I use it on a few of my sites, they have an rss feed for locations. I actually had someone email me from my site asking me to remove their listing. I've been thinking of doing what other sites do, offer to remove the listing for x amount of $.