📰 Vestige

A Python library for fetching and parsing issues of the Bulgarian State Gazette (Държавен вестник).

Vestige gives you a clean, dependency-light Python interface to the official Държавен вестник listing. Scrape issue metadata and download links without wrestling with raw HTML or cryptic JSF form fields ever again.

✨ Features

• 📄 Issue Listings: Fetch paginated lists of State Gazette issues, including issue number, date, year, and type.
• 📥 Download Links: Automatically resolve the PDF and RTF download URLs for each issue.
• 🔌 Pluggable Architecture: Swap out the HTTP transport or the HTML parser via simple interfaces — great for testing with mocks.
• 🗂️ Typed Models: Clean dataclasses (IssueEntry, DownloadFile, PageResult) with to_dict() helpers for easy JSON serialization.
• ⚡ Minimal Dependencies: Only needs selectolax and httpx[http2].

📥 Installation

pip install vestige-scraper

Or, to install directly from source:

pip install .

🚀 Quick Start

import asyncio
from vestige import DVClient

async def main():
    client = DVClient()
    try:
        # Fetch the first page of issues (with download URLs resolved)
        page = await client.get_page(1)

        print(page)
        # PageResult(page=1, total_results=..., total_pages=..., entries=...)

        for entry in page.entries:
            print(entry)
            for file in entry.download_urls:
                print(f"  → {file.filename}: {file.url}")
    finally:
        await client.aclose()

asyncio.run(main())

Fetch all pages at once

import asyncio
from vestige import DVClient

async def main():
    client = DVClient()
    try:
        all_pages = await client.get_all_pages(max_pages=5)
        for page in all_pages:
            for entry in page.entries:
                print(entry.to_dict())
    finally:
        await client.aclose()

asyncio.run(main())

Skip download URL resolution (faster)

page = client.get_page(1, fetch_downloads=False)

🗂️ Models

⚙️ Advanced Usage

Custom transport / parser (e.g. for testing)

from vestige import DVClient
from vestige.network.transport import AsyncRequestsTransport
from vestige.scraping.parsers import IssueParser

client = DVClient(
    transport=MyCustomTransport(),
    parser=MyCustomParser(),
)

Both transport and parser accept any object that satisfies the AsyncPageFetcher and PageParser interfaces defined in vestige.core.interfaces.

🐍 Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• asyncio>=4.0.0
• selectolax>=0.4.7
• httpx[http2]>=0.28.1

🤝 Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome! Please file an issue if you encounter any problems or have suggestions for improvements.

Built with ❤️ for Bulgaria's open data. MIT Licensed.