NTD Classical Chinese Dance Competition Scraper
NEWSEDUCATION
NTD Classical Chinese Dance Competition Scraper
Extracts competition news, contestant highlights, and announcements from the NTD International Classical Chinese Dance Competition website — the world's only globally-televised classical Chinese dance competition, held biennially in New York since 2007.
What it does
Connects to the competitions.ntdtv.com WordPress REST API and collects posts and pages across three language variants:
- Traditional Chinese (zh-hant) — competition news and dancer spotlights
- Simplified Chinese (zh-hans) — competition news and media coverage
- English — dance section static pages (rules, registration, history)
Each record includes the post title, publication date, category label, body HTML and text, winner/rank extraction (where available), division, and a link back to the source article on ntdtv.com or epochtimes.com.
Output fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
post_id |
WordPress post ID |
post_slug |
URL slug |
title |
Post or page title |
category |
Category label (e.g. classical-dance-zh-hant, competition-news-zh-hans) |
division |
Detected competition division (adult-male, adult-female, junior, etc.) |
publish_date |
Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
body_html |
Raw HTML content |
body_text |
Stripped plain text |
winner_name |
Extracted winner name (when detectable from title/body) |
winner_country |
Winner country (where available) |
rank |
Gold / silver / bronze / honorable-mention (when detectable) |
year |
Competition year |
source_url |
Canonical URL of the post or source article |
Input
| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
maxItems |
10 | Maximum number of records to return |
Notes
- No proxy required — the API is publicly accessible
- Deduplicates records across language queries (a post can appear under multiple category IDs)
- Most posts are article stubs linking to full content on
ntdtv.com/epochtimes.com;body_textcaptures the available on-site content - Dance section has ~370 records total (zh-hant: ~244, zh-hans: ~121, pages: 8)