The refusal starts at the rules file itself. For policy tracking that rarely matters: the bills, rules and dockets Politico reports on are public at the source.
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ScrapeIt runs the work as a managed service. You name the jurisdictions, bodies and topics; we collect the primary public records with every stage date kept, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Politico's public pages are collected alongside, with pacing, proxy rotation and rendering handled as part of the service.
We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Politico - and we collect it legally. Where your question is really about policy movement, we will tell you that the primary record is the better source, because it usually is.
Primary-source records carry the document type - bill, rule, notice, hearing - its identifier, title, issuing body, the dates that matter at each stage, status and the source address, collected from the public bodies that publish them.
Stage dates are kept separately rather than collapsed into one date. A bill introduced, amended, passed by one chamber and signed has several dates, and a tracking product that keeps only one will mislead the people relying on it.
Politico article records carry the headline, byline, section, publication timestamp and article identifier, collected from the public pages.
Citation records show where other outlets follow Politico reporting.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and its source type, so primary records and journalism are never mixed.
Legislative and regulatory stage tracking from primary sources is the strongest product: every document with its stages and dates, updated as bodies publish, which is what government affairs teams actually monitor.
Citation analysis shows how Politico reporting is followed by other outlets, which measures its agenda-setting role.
Politico article collection covers the public pages: headline, byline, section, publication timestamp and article identifier.
Limits: nothing behind a login or subscription, and no presentation of journalism as primary record or the other way round.
Politico covers politics and policy in Washington, Brussels and elsewhere, with a large subscription business selling specialist policy coverage to professionals in government affairs, law and lobbying.
Its public pages show a visitor the headline, byline, section, publication timestamp and article identifier of each article, and all of that can be collected.
For a data project that settles the scope quickly: the public pages are collected, and specialist coverage sold to subscribers stays behind its subscription.
The coverage also points to where the underlying data actually lives. Politico reports on bills, regulations, hearings and dockets - public records published by legislatures and agencies, which are, for most tracking purposes, the better source.
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Full plan detailsMost briefs that name Politico are really asking for policy tracking: what is moving, where, and when the next stage happens. For that question, the journalism is a secondary source, and the primary records are public.
Legislatures publish bills and their status. Agencies publish proposed and final rules in official journals. Committees publish hearings. That material is authoritative and complete for its scope. A tracking product built on it is sturdier than one built on reporting about it.
What Politico adds is judgement: which developments matter, what is happening behind the formal record, who is likely to move. That value is real.
The two sit well together. Politico articles show which developments the paper judged worth covering, the primary records show the formal stage each one has reached, and every row carries its source type so they are never mixed.
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Yes. We collect the headline, byline, section, publication timestamp and article identifier from Politico's public pages, with anti-bot handling as part of the service, and specialist coverage sold to subscribers stays behind its subscription. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Politico - and we collect it legally.
From the primary records: bills, rules, notices and hearings published by legislatures and agencies. They are authoritative and public - a sturdier base than reporting about them - and we collect them with every stage date kept.
Because a bill introduced, amended, passed by one chamber and signed has several dates, and each matters to someone. A tracking product that keeps only one date will eventually cause a missed deadline.
Judgement: which developments matter and what is happening behind the formal record. That is genuinely valuable, and the public article records show it: which developments drew coverage, under which byline and when.
Yes. The ScrapeIt Politico API returns article headlines, bylines, sections and publication timestamps, alongside bill, rule and hearing records with their stage dates, as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same data also comes as CSV or XLSX files or straight into your database.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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