webfocusedscrape

Focused scraping component for the Statistical Scraping concept in Official Statistics.

WEB-FOSS-NL

This repo is part of the WEB-FOSS-NL project on statistical scraping. More info on statistical scraping here

Getting started

• Install all required packages using

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Activate the environment
• run the following command to install modules in src as packages for proper import

  pip install -e .

• Create a config.yaml file using config_template.yaml
• In the config file specify the input files:
  • urls: the filename with the given urls, see also urls_template.txt
  • keywords: the filename with the target keywords, see also keywords_template.txt

Known bugs and work in progress

• no support yet for js page content extraction