AP Harvester

AP Harvester is an open source, collaborative data collection platform designed to help newsrooms gather structured data at the speed of news. We built it to lower the barriers in spinning up a new data collection project so that you can get to the story faster.

Harvester is schema-driven, meaning you define the structure of the dataset you want to collect and Harvester automatically renders a user-friendly form through which a team of reporters can enter data as they collect it. It's built to be flexible and transparent, allowing you to adapt as your data collection needs change.

The current iteration of Harvester uses Google Sheets as a data storage mechanism, meaning you can view and work with your data in a tool used by many newsrooms already. Starting a new data collection project with Harvester is as easy creating a new spreadsheet.