Migrate schools scraper from HTML scraping to xacen-backend REST API#5
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Migrate schools scraper from HTML scraping to xacen-backend REST API#5
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The education portal (ceice.gva.es) replaced the old ASP pages with a modern Angular SPA backed by a JSON REST API. The old HTML endpoints return 404. - Rewrite scraper to use xacen-backend API with JWT authentication - Fetch paginated school list and enrich with detail endpoints (datosGenerales, nivelesAutorizados, jornadas, informacionAdicional, servicios, programaLinguistico) - Transform API response to match legacy output schema (same 18 fields) - Always output both CSV and JSON in a single run - Use ThreadPoolExecutor instead of multiprocessing Pool - Remove local HTML mode (no longer applicable) - Drop beautifulsoup4, lxml, requests-cache, debugpy dependencies - Load .env via python-dotenv for non-Docker runs Made-with: Cursor
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Summary
The education portal (ceice.gva.es) replaced its old ASP pages with a modern Angular SPA backed by a JSON REST API at
xacen-backend.gva.es. The old HTML scraping endpoints all return 404.This PR rewrites the schools scraper to use the new API:
GET /guiadecentros/listaCentrosAulariosLibre(100 per page, ~3700 schools across 39 pages)GETendpoints per school (datosGenerales,nivelesAutorizados,jornadas,informacionAdicional,servicios,programaLinguistico)schools.csvandschools.jsonin a single run (no moreOUTPUT_FORMATtoggle)codigo,denGenEs,deno,reg,dir,cp,muni,tel,email,com,titular,lat,long,cif,niveles,horario,info,inst)Changes
scraper.py: API client with JWT auth, pagination, retry with backoff, andThreadPoolExecutorfor concurrent detail fetchingmain.py: remove local HTML mode (--localflag)beautifulsoup4,lxml,requests-cache,debugpypython-dotenvloading for non-Docker runsREADME.mdto document the new API-based approachVerified against previous scrape
\rartifacts), no navigation icon titles ininst, no header labels inhorarioTest plan
uv run src/main.py --school-codes 03000047— single school detail fetchuv run src/main.py --subset 3— paginated list with subset--threads 15data.old/output