Under the hood for Noosa Shire Council

More of the gory details of how information gets into PlanningAlerts. This is here so you can see and learn how it's done but also so you are able to fix things and see in detail what isn't working.

The steps to getting data into Planning Alerts

Applications are published on the Noosa Shire Council website in a human readable, non-structured form.
The latest scraper code on Github is loaded by our scraping platform morph.io.
The scraper planningalerts-scrapers/multiple_technology_one on our scraping platform morph.io collects the information daily and converts it into a machine-readable format.
If the scraper errors anyone who is watching the scraper on morph.io gets informed via a daily email alert.
The machine readable data is validated, imported and geocoded by PlanningAlerts daily. If there are any validation errors on an application, the application is skipped and the error is logged. See below for the most recent logs.
The information is published on PlanningAlerts, made available via the API, and people are informed of new applications via email alerts.

Most recent import logs

Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2025/0026 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2025/0027 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2025/0028 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2025/0029 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0215 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0216 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0217 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0218 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0219 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0220 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0221 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0222 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0223 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0224 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0225 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0228 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0229 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0230 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0231 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0232 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0235 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0236 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL25/0237 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0302 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0303 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0312 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0328 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0329 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin25/0330 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
47 applications found for Noosa Shire Council, QLD with date from 2025-10-18
29 applications errored for Noosa Shire Council, QLD with date from 2025-10-18
Took 13 s to import applications from Noosa Shire Council, QLD

What you can do next

If something isn't right with the scraper or the data coming in then you could do one or several of the following:

Report or view scraper issues
Fork the scraper on Github and try to fix it
If it's an issue with the council website, then contact Noosa Shire Council
Contact us for help

If everything is working fine right now but you want to help if something goes wrong:

Watch the scraper on morph.io, so you will get an email if it errors. Press the "Watch" button in the top right while you're logged in to morph.io.
View any scraper issues. Help fix them or comment on them if they are out of date