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Written by Mat Gadd on 2025-01-29 at 20:28

Looked into getting our recycling/waste collection info into Home Assistant. There’s a popular integration, but it insists on using Selenium to drive a browser?! Bashed together a script to scrape the page and output JSON instead.

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Written by Marcus Noble on 2025-01-29 at 20:36

@Drarok this is what I use. Not perfect but does the job and very actively updated.

https://github.com/robbrad/UKBinCollectionData

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Written by Mat Gadd on 2025-01-29 at 20:37

@Marcus yeah, that’s the one I found. Bizarre approach.

“Some councils need Selenium to run the scrape on behalf of Home Assistant.”

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Written by Marcus Noble on 2025-01-29 at 20:41

@Drarok you’re Oxfordshire council right? Pretty sure it doesn’t need it.

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Written by Mat Gadd on 2025-01-29 at 20:44

@Marcus nope, Wychavon these days!

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Written by Marcus Noble on 2025-01-29 at 20:45

@Drarok oh wow! Nevermind then 🤣

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