biglocalnews/warn-scraper
Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites
When a company announces major layoffs or plant closures, they file a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice with state governments. This tool helps journalists and researchers collect these notices, which are often scattered across various state websites. It takes the URLs of these government websites and provides a structured dataset of WARN notices, ready for analysis.
Available on PyPI.
Use this if you need to systematically gather and analyze data on mass layoffs and plant closures across different U.S. states for reporting or research.
Not ideal if you're only interested in a single company's layoff history or need real-time, instantaneous layoff announcements.
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Mar 16, 2026
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curl "https://pt-edge.onrender.com/api/v1/quality/data-engineering/biglocalnews/warn-scraper"
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