scrapER2022

This script downloads all data from 2022electionresults.comelec.gov.ph by storing the json responses of the backend API. The results directory mirrors the levels of administrative divisions. Slashes (/) in the name of a division is replaced by _. Each directory stores information about that level (info.json) and the corresponding certificate of canvas (coc.json) or clustered precinct results. It will not redownload an already existing json file so multiple invocations of the script won't download everything again.

Results information of COCs and precincts are stored as a list of key-value pairs pointing to the contest code (cc) and ballot order (bo). Information about a candidate such as their name (bon) can be retrieved by looking up their ballot order (boc) from the corresponding contest json file in the contests directory.

Dependencies

• OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher
• python-requests
• python-click

Invocation

This is a python script which can be invoked by

python scraper.py

or

./scraper.py

if on a Ubuntu or Debian-based machine.

It also accepts the following parameters:

-b, --base-dir TEXT             directory from which all downloaded data
                                will be stored
-d, --download-delay FLOAT      minimum delay between successive downloads
-l, --log-level [CRITICAL|ERROR|WARNING|INFO|DEBUG]
                                log output level