sa-tenders 0.1.0

This library enables developers to download and process data from the South African etenders platform.

This library, sa_tenders, simplifies the process of downloading data from the South African e-tenders platform. More specifically, the package enables developers to download, process and export e-tenders data.

Quickstart:

Installing

pip install sa_tenders

A simple example:

from sa_tenders import sa_tenders

#initiating the class
source = sa_tenders(page_size=100, start_date="2024-01-01", end_date="2024-12-31")

#calling some of the class attributes
meta_data = source.meta_data
raw_data = source.raw_data_dict
clean_data = source.cleaned_dataframe

#printing the results
for i in [meta_data, raw_data, clean_data]:
    print(i)

#exporting the clean data to excel
clean_data.to_excel("sa_tenders_data.xlsx")

Disclaimer:

This project was created by Ntuthuko Hlela, an open source developer. Ntuthuko Hlela is not affiliated with the South African government in any shape or form. In other words, this is not a South African government project.

License:

MIT License: Copyright (c) 2025 Ntuthuko Hlela

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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