Create Modern.gov RSS Data Share Connections

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Last updated: 12 Jun, 2018 by Jo Cook (Deactivated)

With the Data Share Connections node selected in the tree right click and select Add DataSource from the context menu.

Select the XML Feed type and click OK.

Location

Here you need to enter the URL to the Modern.gov data that you wish to download e.g.

http://democracy.yourcouncil.gov.uk/mgRss.aspx?f=22 where where 22 is for Councillors (f=25 is for MPs) - replacing yourcouncil with the name for your council.

Note that sometimes the URL may be in the form http://mycouncil.yourcouncil.gov.uk/mgRss.aspx?f=22.

Xsl

Browse to the xsl transformation that you wish to use to transform the XML feed. For Modern.gov you should pick the feedxml-rss.xslt which can be found in the Studio\config folder.

Name

Enter a unique name for your XML Feed Data Share connection: ModernGov_Councillors. Note that this exact name should be used, as it's used by the SQL later.


Click OK

Now we need to download the data so, select the RSS Data Share Connection ModernGov_Councillors, which you will find under the RSS Feeds node, right click and select Synchronise.


Now repeat the above process to create a new RSS connection called Moderngov_mps using f=25 in the Location URL.