pakistan_ppra_*: 503 (2023-05) Parse HTML listings?

[yolile]

https://www.ppra.org.pk/api/index.php/api/release,
https://www.ppra.org.pk/api/index.php/api/records and
https://www.ppra.org.pk/api/index.php/api

return 503

[yolile]

Note that if you go to https://www.ppra.org.pk/ and then click:

There is a list of tenders in OCDS format:

But the "download all" button doesn't work.

We could scrape https://www.ppra.org.pk/opendata.asp?PageNo=1 to get the list of links to download, e.g https://www.ppra.org.pk/ocds.asp?id=523047

[jpmckinney]

Looks like they have 87 pages currently: https://www.ppra.org.pk/opendata.asp?PageNo=87

Retrievable in full by software, either by using an HTML page listing bulk download URLs, or by using machine-readable data as the only input.

They don't really pass this one, as we mean a single HTML page listing (with links to bulk downloads).

If we think there's value, however, we can add it.

[jpmckinney]

@yolile Should we remove Pakistan? Scraping links from individual HTML pages seems to be the only way (https://www.ppra.org.pk/opendata.asp?PageNo=1) but that doesn't meet our minimum criteria for inclusion in Collect.

• If we remove it from Collect, we can delete the Publication in the registry, since it has never succeeded in obtaining a collection.

[yolile]

Sounds good.

@allakulov, could you inform Carey about this so that we can decide whether to reach out to Pakistan and try to make them fix this?

[allakulov]

I have informed Carey and we are following up with PPRA. I'll keep you posted.

[jpmckinney]

@allakulov Any news?