CFLAC China Dance Federation News Scraper

Scrapes news articles and announcements from the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC / 中国文联) dance section — the apex Chinese arts-governance body. Its Dance Association (中国舞蹈家协会) administers the Lotus Award (荷花奖) and Taoli Cup (桃李杯), the two credentials that define professional standing in Chinese dance.

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What It Scrapes

Two content sections under cflac.org.cn/new_ys/yswd/:

• 综合动态 (General News) — ~500 articles across 50 pages. Competition results, policy announcements, ensemble tours, award ceremonies.
• 话题关注 (Dance Topics) — ~190 feature articles across 19 pages. Critical discussion, industry analysis, choreography commentary.

Each article yields:

Field	Description
page_url	Canonical article URL
title / title_zh	Headline in Chinese
category	dt (general news) or wdht (dance topics)
publish_date	Date string extracted from the article page
body_html	Full article body as HTML
body_text	Full article body as plain text
tags	Breadcrumb category labels (e.g., 艺术门类专区, 舞蹈, 话题关注)
department	Author name
source_url	Source publication (e.g., 《中国艺术报》)
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 scrape timestamp

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	20	Max articles to scrape. Leave empty for full crawl (~690 articles).

Anti-Bot

None. CFLAC is a plain HTML server-rendered Chinese government site. No Cloudflare, no paywall, no CAPTCHA. Datacenter requests return 200.

Use Cases

• Tracking Lotus Award / Taoli Cup announcement cycles
• PRC cultural policy monitoring via official arts-governance communications
• Sentiment analysis on Chinese performing-arts industry trends
• Academic research on Chinese dance governance and state-cultural institutions

Coverage

All articles from both dance sub-sections, paginated from newest to oldest. Full crawl covers approximately 690 articles. Runtime scales linearly with maxItems.