socialstyrelsen_scraper 0.0.2

A scraper of statistical data from socialstyrelsen.se built on top of Statscraper.

This is a scraper for statistical data from the statistcial databases http://www.socialstyrelsen.se built on top of the `Statscraper package <https://github.com/jplusplus/statscraper>`.

Very much alpha. Only tested on a selected topics.

Install
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pip install -r requirements.txt


Example usage
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.. code:: python

from socialstyrelsen import SocialstyrelsenScraper

scraper = SocialstyrelsenScraper()
scraper.items # List databasese
# [<SocialstyrelsenDataset: abort (Aborter)>, <SocialstyrelsenDataset: amning (Amning)>...]

dataset = scraper.get("ekonomisktbistandmanad") # Get a specific (by id)

# Inpect dataset
print dataset.dimensions
# [<SocialstyrelsenDimension: MATT>, <SocialstyrelsenDimension: FOR>, <SocialstyrelsenDimension: LANGD>, <SocialstyrelsenDimension: OMR>, <SocialstyrelsenDimension: AGI>, <SocialstyrelsenDimension: AR>]

print dataset.dimensions["OMR"].allowed_values
# [<SocialstyrelsenDimensionValue: 0 (Hela Riket)>, <SocialstyrelsenDimensionValue: 1 (Stockholm)>, ...]

# Make a query, you have to explicitly define all dimension values you want
# to query.
res = dataset.fetch({
"TABELL": "1",
"OMR": ["01", "03"],
"MANAD": ["4", "5", "6"],
"AR": "2017",
"MATT": "1",
})

# Do something with the result
df = res.pandas


TODO
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- Currently only properly tested on "ekonomiskt bistånd"
- Handle large queries.
- Handle dimension labels


Develop
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Run tests:

make tests