City Of Wanneroo - Planning Proposals Scraper

• Cookie tracking - No
• Pagnation - yes, via a flag in json data
• Javascript - No
• Clearly defined data within a row - No, data is in a json record, but council reference is inconsistent, sometimes you have to look in various places on detail page
• System - socialpinpoint and Hive (v5?) - https://docs.strangebee.com/

This is a scraper that runs on Morph. To get started see the documentation

Add any issues to https://github.com/planningalerts-scrapers/issues/issues

To run the scraper

bundle exec ruby scraper.rb

Expected output

Getting planning-proposals page
  Pausing 3.16s
Getting page: 0: https://yoursay.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/ccm/the_hive_projects/tools/the_hive_projects_list/load_more/2693?page=0
/home/ianh/.local/share/mise/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/mechanize-2.8.5/lib/mechanize/pluggable_parsers.rb:107:in `new': MIME::Type.MIME::Type.new when called with a String is deprecated.
Saving record DA2025/1791 - 33 Ocean Falls Boulevard, Mindarie, WA
Saving record DA2025/1622 - 102 Glasshouse Drive, Banksia Grove, WA
Saving record DA2025/1795 - 111 Girrawheen Avenue, Girrawheen, WA
Saving record DA2025/1536 - 64 Caraway Loop, Two Rocks, WA
Saving record DA2025/1630 - 6 Southampton Lane, Mindarie, WA
Saving record DA2025/1835 - 19 Jamaica Lane, Clarkson, WA
Saving record DA2025/1435 - 35 Blackberry Drive, Ashby, WA
Saving record DA2025/1861 - 4 Corinda Way, Ridgewood, WA
Saving record DA2025/1670 - 23 Sierra Key, Mindarie, WA
  Pausing 0.837s
Getting page: 1: https://yoursay.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/ccm/the_hive_projects/tools/the_hive_projects_list/load_more/2693?page=1
/home/ianh/.local/share/mise/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/mechanize-2.8.5/lib/mechanize/pluggable_parsers.rb:107:in `new': MIME::Type.MIME::Type.new when called with a String is deprecated.
Saving record DA2025/1549 - 71 Waddington Crescent, Koondoola, WA
  Pausing 0.837s
  Fetching detail page: https://yoursay.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/jindalee-dap-10-multiple-dwelling-19-bowsprit-view
  Extracted DA2025/1820 from page h1 heading
Saving record DA2025/1820 - 19 Bowsprit View, Jindalee, WA
Saving record DA2025/1635 - 7 Agonis Place, Wanneroo, WA
Saving record DA2025/1821 - DAP - Commercial Development - 37 Amalfi Avenue Mindarie, WA
Saving record DA2025/1524 - 22 McPharlin Avenue, Quinns Rocks, WA
  Pausing 1.154s
  Fetching detail page: https://yoursay.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/draft-local-planning-policy-28-licensed-premises
  Extracted 21033 from contact line instruction
Saving record 21033 - Draft Local Planning Policy 2.8 - Licensed Premises, WA
  Pausing 1.371s
  Fetching detail page: https://yoursay.wanneroo.wa.gov.au/mindarie-amendment-no-234-district-planning-scheme-no-2
  Extracted 54343 from contact line instruction
Saving record 54343 - Mindarie - Amendment No. 234 to District Planning Scheme no. 2, WA
Deleting 0 applications scraped between  and 2025-12-28
  Running VACUUM to reclaim space...
Finished! Added 16 records, and skipped 0 unprocessable records from 2 pages.

Execution time: ~ 15 seconds

To run style and coding checks

bundle exec rubocop

To check for security updates

gem install bundler-audit
bundle-audit