Can someone help me scrape this FCC website

1 points by adysan 11y ago ↗ HN

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm?calledFromFrame=N

I regularly perform searches on this FCC website, which allows me to see new submissions from various companies. I'm not good at web stuff so was wondering if someone can help me figure out a way to automate this process? All I want is to run a few searches once every day and be notified if a new entry pops up in the results.

e.g you can try looking for the new iPhones. They lifted the embargo on 9/9, same day they announced the new iPhones.

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oxalo 11y ago ↗

Try these things: https://monitorbook.com/ or https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

adysan 11y ago ↗

Thanks but the search terms are not in the URL, so I guess monitorhook will not work. About the github repo, that's exactly why I asked here, I'm not good at that kinda stuff.

This is sorta public interest, I guess more than one person might be interested in monitoring new product releases before they're announced. Apple executes it well, but most companies don't. Products end up here months in advance of public announcement.

tuxlinuxien 11y ago ↗

I don't know is there are any tools ready-to-use that can help you doing this. But if you have some knowledge about programming, you can look for some libs (for python, ruby, nodejs, shell, etc...).