Bridging the BLM ePlanning portal
I've built and released another custom RSS-Bridge—this one for the Bureau of Land Management's ePlanning website.
This bridge creates a real-time RSS feed for the "Documents" section of any NEPA project on the site. For those of us who need to track agency filings, this provides an automated way to see new scoping notices, draft EAs, or final decisions the moment they are posted, without having to manually check the website every day.
Like the Congress.gov bridge I shared last night, this one is necessary because the ePlanning site is a complex, JavaScript-driven application that doesn't provide its own data feeds. This bridge uses a browser backend to render the page and extract the document data for you.
Here’s how to use it:
- First, navigate to the ePlanning project page you want to track.
For example, a project's "Documents" page might have this URL:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2017275/570- From the URL, identify the two numbers at the end of the path.
In my example, the Project ID is 2017275 and the Document Folder ID is 570.
- Now, go to https://rssbridge.sij.law and select the "BLM ePlanning Documents" bridge from the list.
- Enter the two ID numbers into the corresponding fields to generate your feed.
- Copy the resulting Atom RSS feed link.
You can now subscribe to that feed link in your reader of choice to get notified of new filings automatically.
As always, the tool is live at https://rssbridge.sij.law, and the code is open for you to peruse and use at https://sij.ai/sij/rss-bridge.