BCEAO

Install

Use a virtual environment

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Download

Trick to know: first HTTP access to https://edenpub.bceao.int return 500 status code but set a session cookie. This session cookie allows to access further urls.

Datasets can be download as CSV files («;» delimiter)

CSV report

• URL : https://edenpub.bceao.int/exportTableauPredefiniEnColonne.php

• method: POST

• params :

  • params: a string formatted as "{frequency}*{country_codes_separated_by_semi-colon}*{start_year}*{end_year*{metadata}*l
  • export: ''
  • idTab: dataset id

  Notes:

  • frequency is always 'A' at this time, monthly datasets are not processed
  • country_codes, start_year, end_year are extracted from https://edenpub.bceao.int HTML content
  • metadata is always 1 (= true)
  • idTab is extracted from dataset list on left column of https://edenpub.bceao.int HTML content