A crawler that fetches data from http://www.base.gov.pt/.

• get_contracts: a spider that fetches the data regarding the public contracts from the website REST API (http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/rest/contratos/), and

Download the spider and its dependencies:

git clone 'https://github.com/ajcerejeira/base.gov.pt.git'
cd base.gov.pt/
pip install -r requirements.txt

And then run the desired spider:

scrapy crawl get_contracts

This will generate the following files:

• contracts.csv - main table, containing the most important info regarding the contracts
• contestants.csv
• invitees.csv
• documents.csv
• places.csv

Please be patient, since it takes some hours before it completes (on my machine it took about 26 hours to finish gathering all data).