New Mexico Legislation URIs

[vad...@votervoice.net]

Hi,

I noticed that the URIs for the bills for NM were broken. 

http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=130&year=13

I looked up the legislative website and it should actually be:

http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=130&year=13

Another question on this:

If and when the URIs are changed, will that also mean that the "updated_at" time stamp will be changed to reflect a change in the document? I'm asking because if not, we won't be able to pull those changes using the API.

Thanks!

[James Turk]

Unfortunately, if a state breaks old session links we're typically unable to update them.  We strongly encourage states to not break their URLs like this, but when & if they do there's little we can do as it's typically not worth our effort to rescrape old sessions.  If NM

As for the other part of your question- if a source updates due to a rescrape then yes- updated_at changes (as it does for every field).

-James

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[James Turk]

The last part of that first paragraph should have said "If NM doesn't change things & provide redirects we'll unfortunately have to let old links expire."

[vad...@votervoice.net]

Thanks James!

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 3:41:21 PM UTC-6, James Turk wrote:

The last part of that first paragraph should have said "If NM doesn't change things & provide redirects we'll unfortunately have to let old links expire."

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:35 PM, James Turk <jt...@sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, if a state breaks old session links we're typically unable to update them.  We strongly encourage states to not break their URLs like this, but when & if they do there's little we can do as it's typically not worth our effort to rescrape old sessions.  If NM

As for the other part of your question- if a source updates due to a rescrape then yes- updated_at changes (as it does for every field).

-James

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:31 PM, <vad...@votervoice.net> wrote:

Hi,

I noticed that the URIs for the bills for NM were broken. 

http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=130&year=13

I looked up the legislative website and it should actually be:

http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=130&year=13

Another question on this:

If and when the URIs are changed, will that also mean that the "updated_at" time stamp will be changed to reflect a change in the document? I'm asking because if not, we won't be able to pull those changes using the API.

Thanks!

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