Orange City Council

Orange City Council publishes development applications as WordPress posts in two categories, both scraped here:

• New DAs - weekly posts, each linking to a PDF listing every application received during the week. The PDF table is parsed using character positions and the drawn row separator lines.
• DAs on Exhibition - posts with application details in the page body, including the exhibition period which is stored as on_notice_from / on_notice_to.

Applications appearing in both feeds are stored once, keyed on council_reference (posts are processed oldest first so the most recent information wins).

This is a scraper that runs on Morph. To get started see the documentation

Add any issues to https://github.com/planningalerts-scrapers/issues/issues

Set MORPH_AUSTRALIAN_PROXY to an Australian proxy, preferably one that rotates its IP address

Expected Output

Storing DA 13/2026(2) - Lot 310 DP 1273534 - 13 Fahy Crescent, Orange NSW
Storing DA 263/2026(1) - Lot 304 DP 1075807 - 10 Isaac Drive, Orange NSW
...
Storing DA 329/2026(1) - Lot 5 DP 35815 - 11 Spring Street, NSW
Storing DA 332/2026(1) - Lot 137 DP 805896 - 120 Sieben Drive, Orange NSW
Finished - processed 78 records

Expected runtime: ~ 5 seconds

To run the scraper

bundle exec ruby scraper.rb

To run style and coding checks

bundle exec rubocop

To check for security updates

gem install bundler-audit
bundle-audit