spent my weekend trying to automate the nightmare of checking government safety updates. manually hunting through those official portals is such a
waste of time when you're trying to track everything from overheating batteries to faulty vehicle parts. i finally just wrote a script that pulls directly from the open government data instead of clicking through every single page. now it basically does the heavy lifting for me by scanning for new announcements automatically.
>it's much easier than manually checking every few weeksthe site is notoriously difficult to navigate without some help.
i almost gave up halfway through because the data structure was a mess . if anyone needs the python snippet i used to parse the updates, let me know. does anyone else use automated tools for compliance tasks or are you all still doing it the
old school way?
link:
https://dev.to/darksider4all_afa2428f63d0/i-built-a-canada-product-recalls-safety-alerts-scraper-that-reads-open-government-data-3p59