COPACI Pan-American Cycling Confederation Scraper

Scrapes the COPACI website — the UCI's Pan-American continental cycling confederation — and extracts four structured data types in a single run:

• National Federations — all 41 affiliated cycling federations across North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean (contact info, president, address, email)
• Sanctioned Events — the Pan-American race calendar (Copa America series, Continental Championships, Pan-American Games) parsed from the built-in iCal feed
• Continental Records — Pan-American records by discipline (track, road, MTB, BMX) from the official records table
• News Articles — multilingual articles (ES/EN/FR) from the WordPress post archive

What data does this scraper return?

Each record is tagged with a type field: federation, event, record, or article.

Federation fields

Field	Description
federation_id	Slug identifier
federation_country	Country name
federation_name	Full federation name
federation_url	Website URL (when listed)
federation_email	Contact email
federation_phone	Contact phone
federation_president	Current federation president
federation_address	Official address
is_latam	true for Latin American federations (excludes US, Canada, Mexico)

Event fields

Field	Description
event_id	Stable event identifier
event_name	Full multilingual event name
event_country	Host country
event_dates	Date range in YYYYMMDD format
event_uci_class	UCI classification (CL2, CL1, CN, etc.)
event_discipline	road / track / MTB / BMX / gravel
event_pan_american_series	Series name (Copa America, Continental Championship, etc.)
event_url	COPACI event page URL

Record fields

Field	Description
record_id	Unique record identifier
record_discipline	road / track / MTB / BMX
record_distance	Event and distance (e.g. "Velocidad 200 mts")
record_athlete	Record holder name
record_country	Record holder's country
record_time	Record time
record_date	Year the record was set

Article fields

Field	Description
article_id	URL-derived slug identifier
article_url	Full article URL
article_title	Article title
article_language	Language code: es / en / fr / pt
article_published_at	Publication date
article_body_text	Article text (first 2000 characters)

All records also include source_url and scraped_at.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum total records across all data types

The scraper fills phases in order: federations (41) then events, records, and articles. Set maxItems: 100 or higher to reach all four data types.

Use cases

• LATAM cycling sponsorship and B2B outreach — 41 national federation contacts in one run
• Pan-American race calendar for sports data and betting markets
• Continental records for performance benchmarking
• Multilingual news archive for cycling media monitoring