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Deprecated. Please see https://github.com/dwillis/Fech for a maintained fork.
Blerf. Apologies, should've run `rake fech:test:spec` **before** I submitted earlier PR! This minor spec tweak returns tests to green.
The `@encoding` instance variable on a `Filing` object is ignored in methods such as `Filing#form_type`, which can lead to an `ArgumentError` ("invalid byte sequence in UTF-8"). Before the included change...
Fech currently installs the *fech-source* submodule (specified in `.gitmodules`) using the git/ssh strategy. This causes a source-based install of Fech -- via bundler in our case -- to fail for...
Is there a reason for the difference in key names between responses for different F3 form types? For example, F3N filings get a `col_a_individual_contributions_itemized` field, while F3XN filings get a...
I noticed that a lot of mappings were a) just wrong (e.g. linked to the wrong record, like col a vs col b, or the wrong version number / line...
SchI is listed in the `sources/headers` CSV files, but there's no `sources/SchI.csv`, and it's not in `map_generator.rb`, `fech_utils.rb`, or `rendered_maps.rb`. There's no documentation to indicate this is intentional. What's the...
FEC has machine-readable records for paper filings here: ftp://ftp.fec.gov/FEC/paper/
