icai-ca-scraper

ICAI CA Scraper

A Python package to fetch CA member details from the ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) website.

Installation

pip install icai-ca-scraper

Usage

Basic Usage

from icai_ca_scraper import CAScraper

# Initialize the scraper
scraper = CAScraper()

# Get details for a single CA member
member_details = scraper.get_member_details(100000)
if member_details:
    print(member_details)

# Get details for multiple CA members
member_numbers = [100001, 100002, 100003]
results = scraper.get_multiple_members(member_numbers)
print(results)

Example with Custom Delay

# Initialize with custom delay between requests (in seconds)
scraper = CAScraper(delay_between_requests=2.0)

# Get member details
details = scraper.get_member_details(100000)

Save Results to JSON

import json

# Get multiple member details
results = scraper.get_multiple_members([100001, 100002, 100003])

# Save to file
with open("ca_results.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    json.dump(results, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)

Features

• Fetch CA member details by membership number
• Support for both single and multiple member lookups
• Built-in rate limiting to prevent server overload
• Clean and standardized data output
• Proper error handling
• SSL verification handling
• Session management

Data Fields

The package retrieves the following information (when available):

• Name
• Gender
• Qualification
• Address
• COP Status (Certificate of Practice)
• Associate Year
• Fellow Year
• Membership Number
• Date of Birth
• Email
• Mobile
• Phone

Example Response

{
  "100000": {
    "name": "JOHN DOE",
    "gender": "M",
    "qualification": "B.Com",
    "address": "123 MAIN ST, CITY, STATE 123456",
    "cop_status": "FULL TIME",
    "associate_year": "A1995",
    "fellow_year": "F2013",
    "membership_no": "100000",
    "date_of_birth": "01-01-1970",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "mobile": "9999999999",
    "last_updated": "2024-04-07 10:30:00"
  }
}

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• requests>=2.25.0
• beautifulsoup4>=4.9.0
• urllib3>=1.26.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.