ECB Scraper

ECB Scraper is a Python package for scraping European Central Bank press conference transcripts. It allows for easy extraction of press conference details including dates and URLs, offering a streamlined way to access ECB statements and Q&A sessions over the years.

Installation

Install ecb-scraper via pip:

pip install ecb-scraper

Usage

CLI

The ECB Scraper also provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) for fetching ECB press conferences without needing to write any Python code. Here's how you can use it:

Arguments

• --start-year: Specify the start year for fetching the conferences. If not provided, the script will use 1998.
• --end-year: Specify the end year for fetching the conferences. If not provided, the current year is used.
• --output-file: Required. The path to the file where the fetched data will be saved (CSV or JSON).

Default values

ecb-scraper --output-file conferences.json

Speific dates

ecb-scraper --start-year 2010 --end-year 2020 --output-file conferences.json

Python

The ECB Scraper can also be used as a Python package. Here's how you can use it:

from ecb_scraper import load_ecb_conferences

# DataFrame with columns ['date', 'title', 'link', 'text']
conferences = load_ecb_conferences(start_year=2005, end_year=2020)