add scrapers for UKIP candidates about yournextrepresentative HOT 5 CLOSED

The best source for this at the moment seems to be a UKIP Twitter list: https://twitter.com/Vote_UKIP/lists/ukip-ppcs-3/members

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Ace! I could do this one 😺

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@andylolz Great - I've assigned this to you, so hopefully other people won't duplicate the work. It's best if it follows the pattern of the scrapers in the all-scrapers branch in this repository: https://github.com/mhl/UK-Political-Parties/tree/all-scrapers/ppcs - i.e. just outputting to json/ukip.

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Ace.

The main issue is figuring out the constituency for each PPC. I’m fetching WMCs from MapIt, so I guess I’ll make it make some educated guesses from there, based on twitter description (and possibly location… although presumably it’s best to err on the side of caution.)

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I've discussed this with @andylolz and we agreed that this probably isn't particularly needed any more, so I'm closing the issue, but for reference some of his work-in-progress is here: https://gist.github.com/andylolz/625f479dd5bed9ce2d08

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