hateimparlament/scraping/fetch.R

source("../utils/helpers.R")
library(RCurl)
library(stringr)

DOWNLOAD_DIR = "../data/" # warning: this is not created (should maybe)

mk_absolute_url <- function(path) paste0("https://www.bundestag.de", path)

mk_url <- function(offset) {
    mk_absolute_url %$% sprintf("/ajax/filterlist/de/services/opendata/543410-543410?offset=%d",
                                offset)
}

download_protocol <- function(path, name) {
    fp <- paste0(DOWNLOAD_DIR, name)
    try %$% download.file(mk_absolute_url(path), fp, quiet=T)
}

fetch_batch <- function(offset) {
    url <- mk_url(offset)
    res <- getURL(url)
    paths <- str_match_all(res, "/resource/blob/.*?/([0-9]*-data\\.xml)")[[1]]
    mapply(download_protocol, paths[,1], paths[,2])
    return(length(paths) > 0)
}

# TODO: error handling
# - what if: page not reachable
# - wrong format, etc.
fetch_all <- function() {
    offset <- 0
    while(fetch_batch(offset)) offset <- offset + 10
}