Add news scraper for Contra Costa county #63
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News scrapers live in the
newsdirectory. You can follow the San Francisco scraper as an example.Contra Costa County
Has a “news flash” RSS feed with some coronavirus-related items. We could filter it by key terms.
Has a coronavirus-specific “news flash” page (no corresponding RSS). Each items is a paragraph, often with a link or two. It’s not entirely clear how to parse this into a list of news links in a reliable way.
The Health Services Department has a coronavirus updates page we can scrape (no RSS).
The Health Services Department has a newsroom with news and press releases, but is not coronavirus-specific (no RSS).
I think just using (3) is the best bet here.
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