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# A Top Trumps engne would be easy,
getting the data less so (the amount of votes they are all absent for doesn't help).

The theyworkforyou API is really expensive, which is a shame, as it could be used for all sorts of fun things.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 26 May 2017, 19:34, archived)
# ho hum
The theyworkforyou API is really expensive - how does that work then? surely its taxpayer funded info? *doh!*
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 26 May 2017, 20:27, archived)
# The API's just the way to get at the data, not the data itself.
You could scrape it, but I remember the pagination made that too much of an arse when I wanted to do something with it, and it stops the data being live.

Likewise, manually enter data - but that's slow and boring too.

(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 26 May 2017, 20:38, archived)
# how about the public whip?
of any use?

www.publicwhip.org.uk/project/data.php
(horrid, Sat 27 May 2017, 10:14, archived)