vic-council-candidates-scraper

A webscraper that gets all Council candidates from the VEC and writes their details to a CSV.

Getting the data

Data is available as CSV files in the data directory.

• candidates.csv: Contains all candidates for all councils in Victoria.
• MCC-candidates.csv: Contains all candidates for Melbourne City Council.
• MCC-leadership.csv: Contains all leadership candidates for Melbourne City Council.

Running project

1. Set up the virtual environment & install dependencies using poetry.

poetry init

poetry install

2. Run the project

Scraper

poetry run python scraper.py

Keyword search

poetry run python keywords.py