This package will help you to get and search different Central Bank Files from the BCE (banco central del ecuador) web page
Install the package using pip or clone this repository
# pip install getBCE from getBCE import *
- Refactor code into modules
- Create a flask REST API with Flask
- Deploy API to Heroku
- Connect this API to econTools (a personal project)
getBCE module exports one Search class that looks for a specific file index and also a Get function that returns the link for a known file index. This way, if you don't know the index of a report or a file from BCE, you could search it up using Search class. In the other hand, if you're already familiar with a specific file index (you've worked with it recently, lets say), then you could save a couple of seconds just typing the index instead of searching for it.
from getBCE import Search search = Search() search.set_date('2020', 'enero') # Prints first 5 files in BCE search.select('005') # Returns link for selected file index
By default, Search prints the first five elements for the selected date (year, month), but this could be easily modified:
from getBCE import Search search = Search() search.set_date('2020', 'enero', starts_at=0, number_of_elements=30, show=True)
from getBCE import get_bce file = get_bce('2020', 'enero', '005', show=True) # Returns and prints selected file link
You can use the API with this link
The API has 3 endpoinst:
- /
- /search/year/month
- /search_all
/ gets 3 optional parameters, which are year, month and index
/search/year/month has 3 optional parameters, as well: starts_at, n_elements and select
and, finally /search_all receives 2 parameteres: year and month
- https://getbce.herokuapp.com/?year=2020&month=enero&index=005
- https://getbce.herokuapp.com/search/2019/marzo?starts_at=5&n_elements=15
- https://getbce.herokuapp.com/search/2019/marzo?starts_at=5&n_elements=15&select=006&select=015&select=008
- https://getbce.herokuapp.com/search/2019/marzo?select=015&select=008&select=006 -
- https://getbce.herokuapp.com/search_all?year=2021&month=julio