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PIB articles for the year - 2022

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PIB articles for the year - 2021

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PIB articles for the year - 2020

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Download articles from Press Information Bureau, India. This might be helpful for candidates preparing for different govt examinations.

Downloading Articles:

You can either use the spider by cloning this repo and following the instructions given below
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You can download the articles direcly from the release section or by clicking on the badges above for the year and month.

There are 4 different kind of zips in the release section for every month

1. Day wise PIB_Daily | MMM_YYYY : These zips contain the PIB articles for the date DD/MMM/YYYY
2. Month wise PIB_Monthly | MMM_YYYY : These zips contain the PIB articles for the whole month MMM/YYYY
3. Text files PIB_Text | MMM_YYYY : These zips contain the text extracted from pdf of the whole month MMM/YYYY
4. Article Link files PIB_LINKS | MMM_YYYY : These text files contains links for the article for the date DD/MMM/YYYY

How to use:

#Clone the repo with:
git clone https://github.com/nit-in/pib
#cd to the cloned repo
cd pib
#installing required packages
pip install -r requirements.txt
#when these steps are done,you are ready to run the spider and download the articles.

#source the env file
source .env

#if you are using shell other than bash then 
bash --init-file .env

#run the spider
pib start_date end_date #(date format: yyyy-mm-dd)
#example => to download the articles from June 1st, 2021 to June 15th, 2021; use
pib 2021-06-01 2021-06-15

For an Entire Month

#For the month of Jan, 2021
pib_month Jan 2021

#For the month of Dec, 2020
pib_month Dec 2020

#For present day
pib_today

#For last day
pib_last_day

Any suggestions and improvements are welcome.