Festival de Dança de Joinville Archive Scraper
Festival de Dança de Joinville Archive Scraper
Scrapes the digital archive of the Festival de Dança de Joinville — the world's largest dance festival by number of participants (Guinness World Record). The festival has run annually since 1983 and the archive digitises 40+ years of festival history spanning clippings, certificates, graphic materials, photos, and videos from each edition.
What It Collects
Each record represents one archive item from the festival's digital library:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
id |
URL slug of the archive item |
title |
Full item title encoding edition, material category, and description |
edition_number |
Ordinal edition number (e.g. "13" for the 13th festival in 1995) |
category |
Material type: Clipagem, Material Gráfico, Certificado, Vídeo, Foto, etc. |
image_url |
Full-resolution image URL (for scanned documents, photos, graphic materials) |
video_url |
Vimeo or YouTube URL (for video archive items) |
source_url |
Canonical URL of the archive item page |
scrapedAt |
ISO-8601 timestamp |
Usage
Set Max Items to limit the run. Leave it at the default for a sample, or set a large number (or 0) to retrieve the full archive.
The archive is paginated — the actor walks the main archive index page by page, collecting all item pages, then scrapes each one.
About the Festival
The Festival de Dança de Joinville is headquartered in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. It averages 4,500+ participating dancers and 200+ dance companies per year, drawing approximately 250,000 spectators. The Bolshoi Ballet School Brasil — the only Bolshoi-affiliated school outside Russia — is also based in Joinville and regularly participates.
The digital archive (/acervo/) covers historical materials from the earliest editions in the 1980s through recent years: newspaper clippings, program booklets, participation certificates, promotional materials, and performance photos and videos.
Data Sources
- Archive index:
https://festivaldedancadejoinville.com.br/acervo/ - Archive categories:
https://festivaldedancadejoinville.com.br/acervo/categorias/<category>/ - Edition series:
https://festivaldedancadejoinville.com.br/acervo/series/<edition>/