edi-energy-scraper 0.0.8

a scraper to mirror edi-energy.de

edi-energy.de scraper

The Python package edi_energy_scraper provides easy to use methods to mirror the website edi-energy.de.

Rationale / Why?

If you'd like to be informed about new regulations or data formats being published on edi-energy.de you can either

• visit the site every day and hope that you see the changes if this is your favourite hobby,
• or automate the task.

This repository helps you with the latter. It allows you to create an up-to-date copy of edi-energy.de on your local computer. Other than if you mirrored the files using wget or curl, you'll get a clean and intuitive directory structure.

From there you can e.g. commit the files into a VCS, scrape the PDF/Word files for later use...

We're all hoping for the day of true digitization on which this repository will become obsolete.

How to use the Package (as a user)

Install via pip:

pip install edi_energy_scraper

Create a directory in which you'd like to save the mirrored data:

mkdir edi_energy_de

Then import it and start the download:

from edi_energy_scraper import EdiEnergyScraper

scraper = EdiEnergyScraper(path_to_mirror_directory="edi_energy_de")
scraper.mirror()

This creates a directory structure:

-|-your_script_cwd.py
 |-edi_energy_de
    |- past (contains archived files)
        |- ahb.pdf
        |- ahb.docx
        |- ...
    |- current (contains files valid as of today)
        |- mig.pdf
        |- mig.docx
        |- ...
    |- future (contains files valid in the future)
        |- allgemeine_festlegungen.pdf
        |- schema.xsd
        |- ...

To prevent a DOS, by default the script waits a random time in between 1 and 10 seconds between each file download. You can override this behaviour by providing your own "slow down" method:

from edi_energy_scraper import EdiEnergyScraper
from time import sleep

scraper = EdiEnergyScraper(path_to_mirror_directory="edi_energy_de",
                           dos_waiter=lambda: sleep(0))  # disable DOS protection

How to use this Repository on Your Machine (for development)

Please follow the instructions in our Python Template Repository . And for further information, see the Tox Repository.

Contribute

You are very welcome to contribute to this template repository by opening a pull request against the main branch.