Collecting FOMC Minutes

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• Reference

  • Scraping: https://github.com/tengtengtengteng/Webscraping-FOMC-Statements
  • Data source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/materials/

Overview

Input

Variable	Type	Example
start_mmddyyyy	str	"01/01/1990"
end_mmddyyyy	str	"08/22/2023"
chromedriver_filepath	str	"C:\GIT\SELENIUM_DRIVERS\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"

Meeting date parsing

• Customized function: extract_begin_end_dates()
  • Input: date range (Data type: string) in various formats
  • Output: meetingdate_start (Data type: datetime), meetingdate_end (Data type: datetime)

Error Handling

• If an error occurs, the case is saved in the ScrapingErrors.csv file.
• After checking this file, handle the errors one by one.