kerala

Kerala

Details

URL = http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electoralrolls.html

Year = Draft Roll for 2018

Script

The Script does 3 things:

1. Produces kerala.csv that contains metadata about the pdfs. The CSV has the following fields: district, leg_assembly, booth_no, polling_station_name, language, file_name

2. Downloads all the pdfs to a directory called kerala_pdfs/

3. Renames the pdfs as follows:

• lowercase, snake_case
• english language rolls have the prefix eng and Malayalam language rolls have the prefix mal.
• Second segment is 2 digit district code (01, 02, 03,...)
• Third segment is 3 digit legislative assembly code (001, 002, 003, ...)
• Fourth segment is a 3 digit polling_booth_code (001, 002, 003, ...)

So a sample name = eng_01_001_001.pdf

Running the script

pip install -r requirements.txt
python kerala.py

Misc. info.:

Archives available from 2011. Script for scraping the archives here.