Idea: checksums or digital signatures for statute text about openlegislation HOT 4 CLOSED

hmm, yeah that's an interesting problem. The text diff sounds like a reasonable solution, we actually do something similar internally to check bill text accuracy.

Let me know how it goes.

That website looks amazing btw, well done!

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Hi @dogweather,

We actually have an api endpoint for getting a list of updates to a specific law sub document (looks like this is missing from our documentation though).
i.e. https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/ISC/3217-D/updates

Does this help?

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Thanks, that sounds very useful, I'll check it out. I'm also getting pretty good results doing this on-the-fly diff. Here, it's showing that on my site, I've removed the redundant (?) title from the body text that some statutes have.

The real challenge IMO is how to provide anything of meaning to the end user. I.e., if you're wanting confirmation that a site is accurate, it doesn't help much for the site to tell you, "Yep, I'm accurate!" :-)

So I'm thinking about a "show me" page where the plugin walks through how it arrived at its conclusion. Kind of like some AI's do.

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That website looks amazing btw, well done!

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

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