python-safer 2.0

A web scraping API written in Python to fetch data from the Department of Transportation's Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System http://www.safersys.org/

python-safer

python-safer is an web scraping API wrapper written in Python to fetch data from the Department of Transportation's Safety and Fitness Electronic Records System.

If you plan to use this package in any capacity, it's highly recommended to cache all of the results you get from the SAFER website. The SAFER website is highly unreliable and will randomly go down.

Here is how you search for companies using python-safer

from safer import CompanySnapshot

client = CompanySnapshot()

results = client.search('python')
for company in results:
    print(company)

<SearchResult PYTHON CORPORATION (698887) from  Lacombe, LA>
<SearchResult PYTHON PRESSURE PUMPING LLC (2346443) from  Ada, OK>
<SearchResult PYTHON SERVICES LLC (918670) from  Brighton, CO>
<SearchResult PYTHON TRANSPORT CORP (2379682) from  Dania Beach, FL>
<SearchResult PYTHON TRANSPORTS LLC (2642177) from  Fort Worth, TX>
<SearchResult PYTHON'S OF ST CLOUD INC (604262) from  St Cloud, MN>

company = results[0].get_company_snapshot()
print(company.legal_name)

PYTHON CORPORATION

Todo

• Write some tests.

Issues

If there are any problems, just open issue.

Installation

Prerequisites

lxml - the C bindings are needed as well. Just follow the installation instructions, should be fine.

Install using pip

pip install python-safer

Usage

This was written with Python 3.5, but it will probably work for any Python 3 version

Be prepared to wait for results, the SAFER CompanySnapshot website is very slow, and half the time it's down.

Import and create CompanySnapshot

from safer import CompanySnapshot

client = CompanySnapshot()

Search by Name

Searching by name will return a SearchResultSet object that can be iterated through, each item in the SearchResultSet is a SearchResult object, to get the Company Snapshot of that object you can call get_company_snapshot()

for company in client.search('python'):
    company.get_company_snapshot()

Getting the company snapshot will return a Company Object.

Search by USDOT Number

Searching by USDOT will return a Company object or raise a CompanySnapshotNotFoundException exception for that USDOT.

company = client.get_by_usdot_number(698887)
print(company.to_json())

{
  "operation_classification": [
    "Private(Property)"
  ],
  "physical_address": "29279 HWY 190 LACOMBE, LA  70445",
  "united_states_inspections": {
    "hazmat": {
      "out_of_service": "0",
      "inspections": "0",
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "4.50%"
    },
    "driver": {
      "out_of_service": "0",
      "inspections": "0",
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "5.51%"
    },
    "iep": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "N/A"
    },
    "vehicle": {
      "out_of_service": "0",
      "inspections": "0",
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "20.72%"
    }
  },
  "state_carrier_id": "",
  "mc_mx_ff_numbers": null,
  "out_of_service_date": null,
  "mcs_150_form_date": "05/13/2016",
  "safety_rating": null,
  "carrier_operation": [
    "Interstate"
  ],
  "hm_shipper_operation": null,
  "safety_review_date": null,
  "canada_crashes": {
    "injury": 0,
    "total": 0,
    "fatal": 0,
    "tow": 0
  },
  "mcs_150_mileage_year": {
    "year": 2015,
    "mileage": 200000
  },
  "mailing_address": "PO BOX 790 LACOMBE, LA  70445",
  "power_units": 8,
  "dba_name": "",
  "entity_type": "CARRIER",
  "safety_rating_date": null,
  "safety_type": null,
  "duns_number": null,
  "drivers": 7,
  "us_inspections": {
    "hazmat": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "4.50%"
    },
    "vehicle": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "20.72%"
    },
    "iep": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "N/A"
    },
    "driver": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%",
      "national_average": "5.51%"
    }
  },
  "united_states_crashes": {
    "injury": 0,
    "total": 0,
    "fatal": 0,
    "tow": 0
  },
  "phone": "[phone]",
  "usdot": "698887",
  "url": "http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=698887",
  "legal_name": "PYTHON CORPORATION",
  "latest_update": "09/12/2017",
  "cargo_carried": [
    "Building Materials"
  ],
  "operating_status": "ACTIVE",
  "canada_inspections": {
    "vehicle": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%"
    },
    "driver": {
      "out_of_service": 0,
      "inspections": 0,
      "out_of_service_percent": "0%"
    }
  }
}

Viewing Company Snapshots in a web browser

Using the open_url() function on a Company object, will open the Company Snapshot on the SAFER website.

company = client.get_by_usdot_number(698887)
company.open_url()

Company Object Properties

company.legal_name

'PYTHON CORPORATION'

company.drivers

7

company.power_units

8

company.phone_number

'[phone]'

There is more, just look at the source code. However all values that are shown on the Company Snapshot website are available in the Company class.