Custom Web Scraper Needed for Municipal Permit Portal Data Extraction
A business needs 2,400 permit records extracted from Spokane's Accela portal into Google Sheets, but has no in-house scraping capability. This reflects a common small-business need to automate manual data collection from government portals for a fixed budget.
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