ICT-EU

What is it?

ICT-EU is a shell script written by Marcos Marado to, using EU’s website as a data source, generate a CSV file with information about all Information Society EU Programmes.

What’s the output?

For each programme, list:

• Title;
• Description;
• Each of the "Project ID card" fields;
• Participating partners (number of partners and number of partner countries).

The output is in the form of a CSV file.

How does it work?

This script scrolls through the information at http://ec.europa.eu/information\_society/apps/projects/index.cfm?menu=secondary and parses it.

Usage

This was written having UNIX-based systems in mind. This usage section assumes you are in such a system (GNU/Linux; MacOS; etc.). Suggestions on how to enhance this section on other systems are welcome.

Dependencies:

• Wget;
• html2text.

The following steps assume you have a clone of this repository on your system.

1. Open a terminal;
2. Go to the directory where this repository is;
3. Type ‘sh ICT-EU.sh’;
4. A new CSV file called final.csv was created in the directory.

Known issues

While this script is meant to work on both GNU/Linux and Mac OS systems, it seems that the output is malformed in Mac OS X.