Initial scraper

lib/politician.rb

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+require 'wikisnakker'
+
+module Wikisnakker
+  class Politician < Item
+    P39_QUALIFIERS = {
+      P102:  :party,
+      P155:  :follows,
+      P156:  :followed_by,
+      P194:  :body,
+      P580:  :start_date,
+      P582:  :end_date,
+      P642:  :of,
+      P768:  :constituency,
+      P1365: :replaces,
+      P1366: :replaced_by,
+      P2715: :election,
+      P2937: :term,
+    }.freeze
+
+    def positions
+      return [] if self.P39s.empty?
+      self.P39s.map do |posn|
+        quals = posn.qualifiers
+        qdata = quals.properties.partition { |p| P39_QUALIFIERS[p] }
+        warn "#{id}: #{posn.value.id} + unknown #{qdata.last.join(', ')}" unless qdata.last.empty?
+
+        qgood = qdata.first.map { |p| [P39_QUALIFIERS[p], quals[p].value.to_s] }.to_h
+        {
+          id:          id,
+          position:    posn.value.id,
+          label:       posn.value.to_s,
+          description: posn.value.description(:en).to_s,
+          start_date:  '' # need _something_ here so we can key on it
+        }.merge(qgood) rescue {}
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

scraper.rb

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+#!/bin/env ruby
+# encoding: utf-8
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require 'everypolitician'
+require 'pry'
+require 'scraperwiki'
+
+require_relative 'lib/politician'
+
+ScraperWiki.sqliteexecute('DELETE FROM data') rescue nil
+house = EveryPolitician::Index.new.country('Belarus').lower_house
+house.popolo.persons.map(&:wikidata).compact.each_slice(100) do |wanted|
+  data = Wikisnakker::Politician.find(wanted).flat_map(&:positions).compact
+  ScraperWiki.save_sqlite(%i(id position start_date), data)
+end