[FedCom] FCC lookup

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This is so wrong headed it isn't even funny. Google doesn't index databases because they can't be crawled.  So yeah, you use the official FCC link you find but only because someone posted it on a website that Google CAN crawl. That is bound to be an incomplete search.

I don't know if it is a directive or not, but most government databases can be downloaded directly if for some reason you don't want to use their website but rather search on your own hardware. I have done this with both the FCC and the FAA using sqlite3. The FCC can require table joins in your SQL. The FAA not so much but you will have to search one database to to get the keys to search another database.

My problem with the FCC website is you can't search for transmitters based on emission code.

Jul 9, 2023 9:49:09 AM Facility 406 <facility_406 at bruteforcedevelopment.com>:

>> Are you trying here ??
>> https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/General_Menu_Reports/
> 
> Can't say.  I generally use google to search for FCC ID#, ULS, FCC license, et cetera, then go to the first relevant FCC page, not a re-direct, and not someone else linking to it.  I wind up on the FCC site, advanced searches, ULS, equipment authorization, office of engineering, et cetera.  Most don't work most of the time, and haven't since last year, to the point of I generally think of all of it as a thing of the past.
> 
> Maybe I've just got bad timing, and they are always doing housekeeping when I'm on, but I'd think industry is 24/7 globally, and the site would need to work right, the first time, always.
> 
> In several instances, when digging around, I've been left with the impression they don't host, or control their own site, or databases, and some third party is having hosting/cloud issues.  If just one of a dozen corporations, or foreign sites is down, the whole data stream fails.  I last tried a few weeks ago, no-go, but to me, typical.  It took about a month to get to a single report (just one product, not a whole database), twice, the second time, I saved it.  I've been under this impression of them buying out hosting from elsewhere for two or three years now, there was a drastic change, and I recall seeing something in the UR: about it calling out to some obscure site, to get it's own info.
> 
> Now, it's not a TOTAL failure.  If I try, a lot, several times a day, or in a week, or hit refresh up to a few dozen, or even a few hundred times, by leaning on F5, then about two to three times a week at best, the site responds, so not totally dead, just mostly dead.
> 
> I have isolated it to not me.  Multiple computers, multiple OS's, multiple connections, multiple ways to the FCC, no change from their end.
> 
> Kurt
> 
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