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 ASBON26/0052 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application ASBON26/0053 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application ASBON26/0054 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application ASBON26/0055 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application ASBON26/0056 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2026/0029 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application CEM2026/0030 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application ERR26/0022 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application EXE26/0009 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application HHA26/0011 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application HHA26/0012 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL22/1874.01 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0087 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0088 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0089 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0090 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0091 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0092 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0093 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0094 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0095 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0096 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0097 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0098 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0099 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0100 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0101 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0102 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0105 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0107 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0108 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application SSL26/0109 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
Error Validation failed: Description can't be blank while trying to save application eBin26/0201 for Noosa Shire Council, QLD. So, skipping
85 applications found for Noosa Shire Council, QLD with date from 2026-08-28
33 applications errored for Noosa Shire Council, QLD with date from 2026-08-28
Took 14 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