CAHEC China Animal Disease Surveillance Bulletin Scraper
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CAHEC China Animal Disease Surveillance Bulletin Scraper
Extract disease-surveillance bulletins from China's national animal health authority — CAHEC (中国动物卫生与流行病学中心).
Crawls the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre website across seven content sections and returns structured bulletin records including full text, NLP-tagged disease terms, species mentions, and province-level geographic references.
What does this scraper do?
CAHEC (China Animal Health & Epidemiology Centre) is the national veterinary epidemiology body under China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. It publishes bulletins on disease outbreaks, epidemiology surveys, regulatory notices, and biosecurity research.
This scraper crawls all seven public sections:
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| 中心动态 (Center News) | Center announcements and activities |
| 通知公告 (Notices) | Regulatory and administrative notices |
| 业务进展 (Business Progress) | Operational and program updates |
| 流行病学调查 (Epidemiology Surveys) | Field survey reports and research |
| 党的建设 (Party Building) | Organization governance |
| 政策法规 (Policies & Regulations) | Regulatory documents |
| 行业信息 (Industry Information) | Sector news and updates |
Output data
Each record includes:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
bulletin_id |
String | Numeric article ID from URL |
bulletin_url |
String | Full URL to article |
section |
String | Content section (e.g., 流行病学调查) |
title |
String | Article title (Chinese) |
published_at |
String | Publication date/time (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM) |
issuer |
String | Source department or sub-laboratory |
body_text |
String | Full article body text |
body_html |
String | Full article body HTML |
disease_terms |
String | Comma-separated disease terms matched (ASF, H5N1, FMD, etc.) |
species_terms |
String | Comma-separated species terms matched (pig, poultry, cattle, etc.) |
region_terms |
String | Comma-separated Chinese province/region mentions |
attachments |
String | Pipe-separated attachment links (text |
first_seen |
String | ISO 8601 scrape timestamp |
scraped_at |
String | ISO 8601 scrape timestamp |
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems |
Integer | 5 | Maximum number of bulletins to extract |
Example use cases
- Veterinary pharma signal tracking — Monitor ASF, H5N1, FMD, and brucellosis outbreak bulletins before they appear in English-language media
- Agricultural commodity risk — Track disease spread across Chinese provinces that affect livestock production regions
- Regulatory intelligence — Extract CAHEC policy notices and technical guidance documents
- Biosecurity research — Build historical datasets of Chinese animal disease surveillance reporting
Notes
- Site is Chinese government static HTML with no anti-bot measures and no JavaScript rendering required
- Content is in Simplified Chinese; disease, species, and region term extraction covers common English and Chinese terminology
- The site is accessible from Apify cloud infrastructure; local connectivity from non-China IPs may be intermittent
- Historical archive spans approximately 1,500+ bulletins across all sections