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Honestly, if you or anyone else has a really easy way to get all communications/publications from every government/government-adjacent body, I genuinely would love to hear it. Especially at the regional/local level, cause those can be a real pain, and we'd love to save ourselves some time



At least for the US, the Federal Register would be a good place to start if you're not scraping it already: https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/documentation/api...

Federal news radio: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/

Government procurement announcements and opportunities: https://sam.gov/reports/awards/standard

In general, you might get more traction if you tilt this toward government contract capture a la Deltek GovWin and other companies. Lots of money in contract intelligence as well as proposal support (in addition to government relations / lobbying)


Yep we get the sources above. We've definitely thought about contract capture--we've just been hesitant because it seems like such a competitive space. But it's definitely tempting, and it wouldn't take much to convince us for sure


What's the order of magnitude of the amount of data sources? 100s, 1000s, tens of thousands?


Definitely many thousands, possibly the 10s of thousands depending on what you count as a source (e.g., if you get press releases from one part if an agency’s site, and speeches from another part, one could consider those separate sources I suppose).




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