Set Up Modular Scraper for India Trade Data
Set Up Modular Scraper for India Trade Data
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see docs/plans/2026-03-07-india-trade-revamp.md. start a new project in this folder (call it india-trade-analysis). use uv. start with the scraper. prefer to not use selenium if possible. https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_expor
Let me start by reading the plan document and the skill file for uv, then look at the website to understand what we're working with.
Now let me look at the website to understand its structure. The user wants me to avoid Selenium if possible. Let me first check the URL they provided and see if we can use httpx/requests instead of Playwright/Selenium.
Let me read the skill for tavily-extract to get the page content, or let me use the web-browser skill to inspect the page. Actually, let me first try to extract content from the URL to understand the form structure.
Let me explore the website to understand how it works, so we can avoid Selenium/Playwright if possible.
tvly extract "https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export" --extract-depth advanced --json 2>&1 | head -200{
"results": [
{
"url": "https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export",
"title": "TRADESTAT",
"raw_content": "# TRADESTAT\n\n\n\n#### Government of India\n\n##### Ministry of Commerce and Industry\n\n###### DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE\n\n[**EIDB**](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export)[**MEIDB**](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/meidb/commoditywise_export)[**FTPA**](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/ftpa/export_commodity_group_new)[**FTSPCC**](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/ftspcc/export_commodity_wise)\n\n[SYSTEM ON INDIA's Export Import(DATA BANK-TRADESTAT)](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export)\nData available 2017-2018 to 2025-2026 (Apr-Aug) Last data updated on 21/10/2025\n\n###### **Trade Type:**\n\n [EXPORTS](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export)[IMPORTS](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_import)[TOTAL TRADE](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_ttrade)\n\n###### **Reports:**\n\n \n\n Commodity-wise \n* [Commodity-wise](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export)\n* [Chapter-wise all commodities](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/chapter_wise_all_commodities_export)\n* [Commodity-wise all Countries](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_all_countries_export)\n* [Commodity x Country-wise](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodityx_countries_wise_export)\n* [Country-wise](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_export)\n* [Country-wise all Commodities](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export)\n* [Region-wise](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/region_wise_export)\n* [Region-wise all Countries](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/region_wise_all_countries_export)\n* [Region-wise all Commodities](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/region_wise_all_commodities_export)\n* [Predefined Group of Countries](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/predefined_group_of_countries_export)\n* [Customised Group of Countries](https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/customised_group_of_countries_export)\n\nLoading…\n\n##### **Export :: Commodity Wise**\n\n**Year:** \n\n**All Commodity:** \n\n**Specific HSCode:** Search HSCode \n\n**Values in:** \n\nSubmit\n\n# HS Code Search\n\nHS Code: \n\nDescription: \n\nSearch\n\nClose\n\nData Source Metadata on DGCI&S Ownership feedback Disclaimer help",
"images": []
}
],
"failed_results": [],
"response_time": 9.83,
"request_id": "4221459f-574b-41ec-a12a-afe603032070"
}I can see the site structure. The form has Year, Commodity, HSCode, and Values dropdowns. The page uses JS-driven form submission. Let me try to see the actual network requests by looking at the page source, specifically the JavaScript. Let me try to extract the page source and JS files to understand the API endpoints.
Let me use the web-browser skill or directly try making HTTP requests to see if we can avoid Selenium/Playwright.
Let me dig deeper into the site's actual API by examining the page source and JavaScript.
SKILL_DIR="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/skills/web-browser"
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/start.js" 2>&1 | tail -5✗ Failed to connect to Chrome
SKILL_DIR="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/skills/web-browser"
"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/start.js" 2>&1✗ Failed to connect to Chrome Command exited with code 1
# Let's try a different approach - use curl to get the page source and inspect the JS
curl -sL "https://tradestat.commerce.use cdp
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP list 2>&11B8A0FF6 House Party with @stuvikrishnan - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSaU3X8bzc&list=RDOYSaU3X8bzc&start_radio=1&t=925s C9A48549 TRADESTAT https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export
The TRADESTAT page is already open. Let me inspect the form structure and network behavior.
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP snap C9A48549 2>&1 | head -100[RootWebArea] TRADESTAT
[image] Logo
[heading] Government of India
[StaticText] Government of India
[heading] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[StaticText] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[heading] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[StaticText] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[link] EIDB
[StaticText] EIDB
[link] MEIDB
[StaticText] MEIDB
[link] FTPA
[StaticText] FTPA
[link] FTSPCC
[StaticText] FTSPCC
[LineBreak]
[StaticText] SYSTEM ON INDIA's Export Import (DATA BANK-TRADESTAT)
[StaticText] Data available 2017-2018 to 2025-2026 (Apr-Aug) Last data updated on 21/10/2025
[heading] Trade Type:
[StaticText] Trade Type:
[StaticText]
[link] EXPORTS
[StaticText] EXPORTS
[link] IMPORTS
[StaticText] IMPORTS
[link] TOTAL TRADE
[StaticText] TOTAL TRADE
[heading] Reports:
[StaticText] Reports:
[StaticText]
[button] Commodity-wise
[StaticText] Commodity-wise
[heading] Export :: Commodity Wise
[StaticText] Export :: Commodity Wise
[StaticText] Year:
[StaticText]
[combobox] = "2024-2025"
[option] 2024-2025
[option] 2023-2024
[option] 2022-2023
[option] 2021-2022
[option] 2020-2021
[option] 2019-2020
[option] 2018-2019
[StaticText] All Commodity:
[combobox] = "2 digit Level"
[option] 2 digit Level
[option] 4 digit Level
[option] 6 digit Level
[option] 8 digit Level
[StaticText]
[StaticText] Specific HSCode:
[searchbox] HS code
[button] Search HSCode
[StaticText] Search HSCode
[StaticText] Values in:
[StaticText]
[combobox] = "US $ Million"
[option] US $ Million
[option] ₹ Crore
[option] Quantity
[button] Submit
[StaticText] Submit
[button] Data Source
[StaticText] Data Source
[button] Metadata on DGCI&S
[StaticText] Metadata on DGCI&S
[button] Ownership
[StaticText] Ownership
[button] feedback
[StaticText] feedback
[button] Disclaimer
[StaticText] Disclaimer
[button] help
[StaticText] helpCDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Get the page HTML to see form structure, JS handlers, CSRF tokens, etc.
$CDP eval C9A48549 'document.querySelector("form") ? document.querySelector("form").outerHTML : "no form found"' 2>&1<form method="post" action="https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export" onsubmit="openLoader()">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="CCOALdP9Sy67StinuVazM0CUyHGzqKYNADseOfJF" autocomplete="off"> <div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12 text-center">
<h5><b>Export :: Commodity Wise</b></h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3">
<label class="mt-1">
<b>Year:</b>
</label>
<select class="form-select" name="EidbYearCwe" id="EidbYearCwe" wire:model="EidbYearCwe" required="">
<!-- <option value="">-select-</option> -->
<option value="2024">2024-2025</option>
<option value="2023">2023-2024</option>
<option value="2022">2022-2023</option>
<option value="2021">2021-2022</option>
<option value="2020">2020-2021</option>
<option value="2019">2019-2020</option>
<option value="2018">2018-2019</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3 align-items-center">
<!-- Radio button for All Commodity -->
<input type="radio" id="radio1" checked="checked" onclick="check1()" name="comType" wire:model="comType" value="all">
<label class="mt-1 me-2"><b>All Commodity:</b></label>
<!-- Dropdown for All Commodity -->
<select class="form-select" wire:model="EidbComLevelCwe" id="Commoditylevl" name="EidbComLevelCwe" required="">
<!-- Enable only if 'all' is selected -->
<!-- <option value="0">--select--</option> -->
<option value="2">2 digit Level</option>
<option value="4">4 digit Level</option>
<option value="6">6 digit Level</option>
<option value="8">8 digit Level</option>
</select>
<!-- <label class="mt-1 me-1"><b> OR</b></label> -->
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3 align-items-center">
<!-- Radio button for Specific Commodity -->
<input id="radio2" class="form-check-input" onclick="check2()" type="radio" name="commodityType" wire:model="commodityType" value="specific">
<label class="mt-1 me-2"><b>Specific HSCode:</b></label>
<!-- Conditionally Show Search Input for Specific Commodity -->
<input type="search" id="sp" name="Eidb_hscodeCwe" class="form-control rounded" wire:model="Eidb_hscodeCwe" maxlength="8" placeholder="HS code" disabled="">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#exampleModal">
Search HSCode
</button>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3">
<label class="mt-1">
<b>Values in: </b>
</label>
<select class="form-select" name="Eidb_ReportCwe" id="Eidb_ReportCwe" wire:model="Eidb_ReportCwe" required="">
<option value="2">US $ Million</option>
<option value="1">₹ Crore</option>
<option value="3">Quantity</option>
</select>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-1 ">
<button onclick="return checkval()" type="submit" class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;">Submit</button>
</div> -->
<!-- <div class="col-md-1 d-flex justify-content-end">
<button type="button" class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;" id="excel" data-kt-menu-trigger="click" data-kt-menu-placement="bottom-end">Excel</button>
<button class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;" type="button" onclick="window.print()">Print</button>
</div> -->
</div>
<div class="row text-center">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<center>
<button onclick="return checkval()" type="submit" class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;">Submit</button>
</center>
</div>
</div>
</form>Now I can see the form structure. It's a standard POST form with:
_token (CSRF token)EidbYearCwe (year value like "2024")comType (radio: "all")EidbComLevelCwe (digit level: "2", "4", "6", "8")Eidb_hscodeCwe (specific HS code)Eidb_ReportCwe (value unit: "2" for USD Million, "1" for ₹ Crore, "3" for Quantity)Since it uses a CSRF token and POSTs to the same URL, I could potentially use httpx or requests instead of Playwright by extracting the token from a GET request first, then submitting the form data directly. Let me test submitting through the browser to see what the response looks like and whether a direct HTTP approach would work.
This is a standard HTML form with a CSRF token — no need for Selenium/Playwright! We can use httpx with a session. Let me submit the form via the browser first to see the response format.
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Submit the form to see results
$CDP click C9A48549 'button[onclick="return checkval()"]' 2>&1Clicked <BUTTON> "Submit"
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
sleep 3
# Check if there's a results table
$CDP eval C9A48549 'document.querySelector("table") ? document.querySelector("table").outerHTML.substring(0, 3000) : "no table"' 2>&1no table
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP snap C9A48549 2>&1 | head -80[RootWebArea] TRADESTAT
[image] Logo
[heading] Government of India
[StaticText] Government of India
[heading] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[StaticText] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[heading] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[StaticText] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[link] EIDB
[StaticText] EIDB
[link] MEIDB
[StaticText] MEIDB
[link] FTPA
[StaticText] FTPA
[link] FTSPCC
[StaticText] FTSPCC
[LineBreak]
[StaticText] SYSTEM ON INDIA's Export Import (DATA BANK-TRADESTAT)
[StaticText] Data available 2017-2018 to 2025-2026 (Apr-Aug) Last data updated on 21/10/2025
[heading] Trade Type:
[StaticText] Trade Type:
[StaticText]
[link] EXPORTS
[StaticText] EXPORTS
[link] IMPORTS
[StaticText] IMPORTS
[link] TOTAL TRADE
[StaticText] TOTAL TRADE
[heading] Reports:
[StaticText] Reports:
[StaticText]
[button] Commodity-wise
[StaticText] Commodity-wise
[heading] Export :: Commodity Wise
[StaticText] Export :: Commodity Wise
[StaticText] Year:
[StaticText]
[combobox] = "2024-2025"
[option] 2024-2025
[option] 2023-2024
[option] 2022-2023
[option] 2021-2022
[option] 2020-2021
[option] 2019-2020
[option] 2018-2019
[StaticText] All Commodity:
[combobox] = "2 digit Level"
[option] 2 digit Level
[option] 4 digit Level
[option] 6 digit Level
[option] 8 digit Level
[StaticText]
[StaticText] Specific HSCode:
[searchbox] HS code
[button] Search HSCode
[StaticText] Search HSCode
[StaticText] Values in:
[StaticText]
[combobox] = "US $ Million"
[option] --select--
[option] ₹ Crore
[option] US $ Million
[option] Quantity
[button] Submit
[StaticText] Submit
[StaticText] To sort, click on desired columns
[StaticText] Report Dated: 22 Mar 2026|| Values in US $ Million
[StaticText] Show
[combobox] Show entries = "10"
[option] 10
[option] 25
[option] 50
[option] 100
[option] 500
[option] 1,000
[StaticText] entries
[button] Excel
[StaticText] Excel
[button] PDFThe results are showing! Let me see the table data:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP snap C9A48549 --compact 2>&1 | tail -80[StaticText] 1,637.12
[cell] 0.3746
[StaticText] 0.3746
[cell] 1,695.09
[StaticText] 1,695.09
[cell] 0.3873
[StaticText] 0.3873
[cell] 3.54
[StaticText] 3.54
[cell] 9
[StaticText] 9
[cell] 09
[StaticText] 09
[cell] COFFEE, TEA, MATE AND SPICES.
[StaticText] COFFEE, TEA, MATE AND SPICES.
[cell] 4,738.58
[StaticText] 4,738.58
[cell] 1.0842
[StaticText] 1.0842
[cell] 5,364.76
[StaticText] 5,364.76
[cell] 1.2257
[StaticText] 1.2257
[cell] 13.21
[StaticText] 13.21
[cell] 10
[StaticText] 10
[cell] 10
[StaticText] 10
[cell] CEREALS.
[StaticText] CEREALS.
[cell] 10,994.03
[StaticText] 10,994.03
[cell] 2.5154
[StaticText] 2.5154
[cell] 12,752.39
[StaticText] 12,752.39
[cell] 2.9135
[StaticText] 2.9135
[cell] 15.99
[StaticText] 15.99
[cell] India's Total Export
[StaticText] India's Total Export
[cell] 437,072.03
[StaticText] 437,072.03
[cell] 437,704.58
[StaticText] 437,704.58
[cell] 0.14
[StaticText] 0.14
[StaticText] Showing 1 to 10 of 98 entries
[link] Previous
[StaticText] Previous
[link] 1
[StaticText] 1
[link] 2
[StaticText] 2
[link] 3
[StaticText] 3
[link] 4
[StaticText] 4
[link] 5
[StaticText] 5
[link] …
[StaticText] …
[link] 10
[StaticText] 10
[link] Next
[StaticText] Next
[button] Data Source
[StaticText] Data Source
[button] Metadata on DGCI&S
[StaticText] Metadata on DGCI&S
[button] Ownership
[StaticText] Ownership
[button] feedback
[StaticText] feedback
[button] Disclaimer
[StaticText] Disclaimer
[button] help
[StaticText] helpCDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Get the table HTML and headers
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("table thead th")).map(th => th.textContent.trim()))' 2>&1["S.No.","HSCode","Commodity","2023 - 2024","%Share","2024 - 2025","%Share","%Growth"]
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Get the full table body - all rows
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("table tbody tr")).map(tr => Array.from(tr.querySelectorAll("td")).map(td => td.textContent.trim())))' 2>&1[["1","01","LIVE ANIMALS.","12.37","0.0028","19.70","0.0045","59.17"],["2","02","MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL.","3,832.60","0.8769","4,159.00","0.9502","8.52"],["3","03","FISH AND CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC INVERTABRATES.","6,124.21","1.4012","6,296.53","1.4385","2.81"],["4","04","DAIRY PRODUCE; BIRDS' EGGS; NATURAL HONEY; EDIBLE PROD. OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPEC. OR INCLUDED.","624.77","0.1429","853.99","0.1951","36.69"],["5","05","PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED.","268.95","0.0615","289.79","0.0662","7.75"],["6","06","LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS; BULBS; ROOTS AND THE LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE.","86.70","0.0198","88.58","0.0202","2.17"],["7","07","EDIBLE VEGETABLES AND CERTAIN ROOTS AND TUBERS.","1,940.68","0.4440","2,192.81","0.5010","12.99"],["8","08","EDIBLE FRUIT AND NUTS; PEEL OR CITRUS FRUIT OR MELONS.","1,637.12","0.3746","1,695.09","0.3873","3.54"],["9","09","COFFEE, TEA, MATE AND SPICES.","4,738.58","1.0842","5,364.76","1.2257","13.21"],["10","10","CEREALS.","10,994.03","2.5154","12,752.39","2.9135","15.99"]]
It's paginated, showing 10 of 98 entries. Now let me check if we can do this purely with HTTP requests — let me try a direct POST with httpx:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Get all cookies and the CSRF token for manual request testing
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify({token: document.querySelector("input[name=_token]").value, cookies: document.cookie})' 2>&1{"token":"ygUlwb7nSVJC5IPua3eltARFgLQpAbOjMJBAKi7o","cookies":""}# Try a direct httpx request to see if we can skip the browser
python3 -c "
import httpx
# First GET to obtain session cookie + CSRF token
client = httpx.Client(follow_redirects=True, timeout=30)
r = client.get('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export')
print('Status:', r.status_code)
print('Cookies:', dict(client.cookies))
# Extract CSRF token
import re
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1) if m else 'NOT FOUND'
print('Token:', token)
# Now POST
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearCwe': '2024',
'comType': 'all',
'EidbComLevelCwe': '2',
'Eidb_ReportCwe': '2',
}
r2 = client.post('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export', data=data)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
print('Has table:', '<table' in r2.text)
# Find number of rows
rows = re.findall(r'<tr>', r2.text)
print('Rows in response:', len(rows))
# Extract first few rows
import html
tables = re.findall(r'<tbody>(.*?)</tbody>', r2.text, re.DOTALL)
if tables:
trs = re.findall(r'<tr>(.*?)</tr>', tables[0], re.DOTALL)
print(f'Data rows: {len(trs)}')
# Show first row
if trs:
tds = re.findall(r'<td[^>]*>(.*?)</td>', trs[0], re.DOTALL)
print('First row:', [td.strip() for td in tds])
" 2>&1Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
import httpx
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'httpx'
Command exited with code 1uv run --with httpx --with lxml python3 -c "
import httpx, re
# First GET to obtain session cookie + CSRF token
client = httpx.Client(follow_redirects=True, timeout=30)
r = client.get('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export')
print('GET Status:', r.status_code)
print('Cookies:', dict(client.cookies))
# Extract CSRF token
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1) if m else 'NOT FOUND'
print('Token:', token[:20], '...')
# Now POST
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearCwe': '2024',
'comType': 'all',
'EidbComLevelCwe': '2',
'Eidb_ReportCwe': '2',
}
r2 = client.post('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export', data=data)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
print('Has table:', '<table' in r2.text)
# Parse with lxml
from lxml import html as lxml_html
doc = lxml_html.fromstring(r2.text)
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
if rows:
for row in rows[:3]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
# Last row (total)
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last row:', cells)
" 2>&1Installed 7 packages in 7ms
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_transports/default.py", line 101, in map_httpcore_exceptions
yield
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_transports/default.py", line 250, in handle_request
resp = self._pool.handle_request(req)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_sync/connection_pool.py", line 256, in handle_request
raise exc from None
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_sync/connection_pool.py", line 236, in handle_request
response = connection.handle_request(
pool_request.request
)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_sync/connection.py", line 101, in handle_request
raise exc
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_sync/connection.py", line 78, in handle_request
stream = self._connect(request)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_sync/connection.py", line 156, in _connect
stream = stream.start_tls(**kwargs)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_backends/sync.py", line 154, in start_tls
with map_exceptions(exc_map):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.14.3-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.14/contextlib.py", line 162, in __exit__
self.gen.throw(value)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpcore/_exceptions.py", line 14, in map_exceptions
raise to_exc(exc) from exc
httpcore.ConnectError: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 6, in <module>
r = client.get('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export')
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 1053, in get
return self.request(
~~~~~~~~~~~~^
"GET",
^^^^^^
...<7 lines>...
extensions=extensions,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 825, in request
return self.send(request, auth=auth, follow_redirects=follow_redirects)
~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 914, in send
response = self._send_handling_auth(
request,
...<2 lines>...
history=[],
)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 942, in _send_handling_auth
response = self._send_handling_redirects(
request,
follow_redirects=follow_redirects,
history=history,
)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 979, in _send_handling_redirects
response = self._send_single_request(request)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 1014, in _send_single_request
response = transport.handle_request(request)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_transports/default.py", line 249, in handle_request
with map_httpcore_exceptions():
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.14.3-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.14/contextlib.py", line 162, in __exit__
self.gen.throw(value)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/2F4mporZKtXfAMnT3Gsb4/lib/python3.14/site-packages/httpx/_transports/default.py", line 118, in map_httpcore_exceptions
raise mapped_exc(message) from exc
httpx.ConnectError: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer
Command exited with code 1SSL/TLS issue. The server might have an older TLS configuration. Let me try with curl first to see what's going on, then try with a custom SSL context.
TLS issue. Let me check if curl works and what TLS the server needs:
# Try curl to see if it's a TLS version issue
curl -v --max-time 15 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export' 2>&1 | head -30% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Host tradestat.commerce.gov.in:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 164.100.114.44
* Trying 164.100.114.44:443...
* Connected to tradestat.commerce.gov.in (164.100.114.44) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
} [330 bytes data]
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
{ [122 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
{ [21 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
{ [2817 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
{ [264 bytes data]
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
{ [36 bytes data]
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
} [36 bytes data]
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256 / [blank] / UNDEF
* ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=*.commerce.gov.in
* start date: Aug 8 00:00:00 2025 GMT
* expire date: Sep 8 23:59:59 2026 GMTCurl works fine. The server uses TLS 1.3. The issue might be Python 3.14 SSL. Let me try with requests and a specific Python version:
# Try with requests and a user-agent header
uv run --python 3.12 --with requests --with lxml python3 -c "
import requests, re
session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
})
# GET
r = session.get('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export', timeout=30)
print('GET Status:', r.status_code)
print('Cookies:', dict(session.cookies))
# Extract CSRF token
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
print('Token:', token[:20], '...')
# POST
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearCwe': '2024',
'comType': 'all',
'EidbComLevelCwe': '2',
'Eidb_ReportCwe': '2',
}
r2 = session.post('https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export', data=data, timeout=30)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
print('Response length:', len(r2.text))
print('Has table:', '<table' in r2.text)
from lxml import html
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
if rows:
for row in rows[:3]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last row:', cells)
" 2>&1Downloading lxml (8.3MiB)
Downloaded lxml
Installed 6 packages in 9ms
GET Status: 200
Cookies: {'indiatrade-session': 'eyJpdiI6IkRhTzlPTVF5ZUF5Mll4VEtoT2NXb1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVXlVcGc0V1VTeEttM0lCQ2sxVUtyMmpGLzJnN1J5WTBFQlg1c2hZektzNWdFWGp3dzd0emtVbGFhU3p4VGsxb3NqMXRRcnMvVndXS0RXbWE1ZUF5U1hVdHc1Rlkxelc0UEZScmxPcmlXOFpkQ1E3dDNJYzdBM0xsQ3RvQzB5a2QiLCJtYWMiOiIzMWJhMDNkMDBmYzI1NzU1MDc1YzNjZTRhMjQ1ZTJiYzY1NmFlZGVlYWEyMzYyZjQ2MTJkM2MwOTdhMTU1OGMzIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D'}
Token: d0aFXhK1NIclJOaxARPH ...
POST Status: 200
Response length: 148881
Has table: True
Data rows: 98
['1', '01', 'LIVE ANIMALS.', '12.37', '0.0028', '19.70', '0.0045', '59.17']
['2', '02', 'MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL.', '3,832.60', '0.8769', '4,159.00', '0.9502', '8.52']
['3', '03', 'FISH AND CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC INVERTABRATES.', '6,124.21', '1.4012', '6,296.53', '1.4385', '2.81']
...
Last row: ['98', '99', 'MISCELLANEOUS GOODS.', '93.92', '0.0215', '0.31', '0.0001', '-99.67']All 98 rows in a single response — no pagination needed with HTTP requests. Now let me also check the country-wise endpoint:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Navigate to country-wise all commodities page
$CDP nav C9A48549 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export' 2>&1Navigated to https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP eval C9A48549 'document.querySelector("form") ? document.querySelector("form").outerHTML.substring(0, 4000) : "no form"' 2>&1<form method="post" action="https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export" onsubmit="openLoader()">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="yNJILF40zdFEWP7DYuyO5236J1GoBmpgmw2JhMJT" autocomplete="off"><!-- <form wire:submit.prevent="search" onsubmit="openLoader()"> -->
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12 text-center">
<h5><b>Export :: Country-wise All Commodities</b></h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3">
<label class="mt-1"><strong>Year:</strong></label>
<select required="" class="form-select" name="EidbYearcwace" id="EidbYearcwace" wire:model="EidbYearcwace">
<option value="2024">2024-2025</option>
<option value="2023">2023-2024</option>
<option value="2022">2022-2023</option>
<option value="2021">2021-2022</option>
<option value="2020">2020-2021</option>
<option value="2019">2019-2020</option>
<option value="2018">2018-2019</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-3 col-lg-3">
<label class="mt-1"><strong>Country:</strong></label>
<select required="" class="form-select" id="EidbCntcwace" wire:model="EidbCntcwace" name="EidbCntcwace">
<option value="1,AFGHANISTAN">AFGHANISTAN</option>
<option value="3,ALBANIA">ALBANIA</option>
<option value="5,ALGERIA">ALGERIA</option>
<option value="7,AMERI SAMOA">AMERI SAMOA</option>
<option value="9,ANDORRA">ANDORRA</option>
<option value="11,ANGOLA">ANGOLA</option>
<option value="12,ANGUILLA">ANGUILLA</option>
<option value="14,ANTARTICA">ANTARTICA</option>
<option value="13,ANTIGUA">ANTIGUA</option>
<option value="15,ARGENTINA">ARGENTINA</option>
<option value="16,ARMENIA">ARMENIA</option>
<option value="20,ARUBA">ARUBA</option>
<option value="17,AUSTRALIA">AUSTRALIA</option>
<option value="19,AUSTRIA">AUSTRIA</option>
<option value="21,AZERBAIJAN">AZERBAIJAN</option>
<option value="23,BAHAMAS">BAHAMAS</option>
<option value="25,BAHARAIN IS">BAHARAIN IS</option>
<option value="27,BANGLADESH PR">BANGLADESH PR</option>
<option value="29,BARBADOS">BARBADOS</option>
<option value="55,BELARUS">BELARUS</option>
<option value="33,BELGIUM">BELGIUM</option>
<option value="31,BELIZE">BELIZE</option>
<option value="35,BENIN">BENIN</option>
<option value="37,BERMUDA">BERMUDA</option>
<option value="38,BHUTAN">BHUTAN</option>
<option value="39,BOLIVIA">BOLIVIA</option>
<option value="40,BOSNIA-HRZGOVIN">BOSNIA-HRZGOVIN</option>
<option value="41,BOTSWANA">BOTNow let me get the full country list:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#EidbCntcwace option")).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()})))' 2>&1 | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
print(f'Total countries: {len(data)}')
for d in data[:5]:
print(d)
print('...')
for d in data[-5:]:
print(d)
" 2>&1Total countries: 251
{'value': '1,AFGHANISTAN', 'text': 'AFGHANISTAN'}
{'value': '3,ALBANIA', 'text': 'ALBANIA'}
{'value': '5,ALGERIA', 'text': 'ALGERIA'}
{'value': '7,AMERI SAMOA', 'text': 'AMERI SAMOA'}
{'value': '9,ANDORRA', 'text': 'ANDORRA'}
...
{'value': '439,VIRGIN IS US', 'text': 'VIRGIN IS US'}
{'value': '443,WALLIS F IS', 'text': 'WALLIS F IS'}
{'value': '453,YEMEN REPUBLC', 'text': 'YEMEN REPUBLC'}
{'value': '461,ZAMBIA', 'text': 'ZAMBIA'}
{'value': '463,ZIMBABWE', 'text': 'ZIMBABWE'}CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Save full country list
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#EidbCntcwace option")).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()})))' 2>&1 > /tmp/countries.json
# Also check the rest of the form - HS level selector and value unit
$CDP eval C9A48549 'document.querySelector("form").outerHTML.substring(3500, 7000)' 2>&1ELARUS">BELARUS</option>
<option value="33,BELGIUM">BELGIUM</option>
<option value="31,BELIZE">BELIZE</option>
<option value="35,BENIN">BENIN</option>
<option value="37,BERMUDA">BERMUDA</option>
<option value="38,BHUTAN">BHUTAN</option>
<option value="39,BOLIVIA">BOLIVIA</option>
<option value="40,BOSNIA-HRZGOVIN">BOSNIA-HRZGOVIN</option>
<option value="41,BOTSWANA">BOTSWANA</option>
<option value="45,BR VIRGN IS">BR VIRGN IS</option>
<option value="43,BRAZIL">BRAZIL</option>
<option value="4,BRITISH INDIAN ">BRITISH INDIAN </option>
<option value="47,BRUNEI">BRUNEI</option>
<option value="49,BULGARIA">BULGARIA</option>
<option value="50,BURKINA FASO">BURKINA FASO</option>
<option value="53,BURUNDI">BURUNDI</option>
<option value="67,C AFRI REP">C AFRI REP</option>
<option value="56,CAMBODIA">CAMBODIA</option>
<option value="57,CAMEROON">CAMEROON</option>
<option value="59,CANADA">CANADA</option>
<option value="61,CANARY IS">CANARY IS</option>
<option value="63,CAPE VERDE IS">CAPE VERDE IS</option>
<option value="65,CAYMAN IS">CAYMAN IS</option>
<option value="69,CHAD">CHAD</option>
<option value="71,CHANNEL IS">CHANNEL IS</option>
<option value="73,CHILE">CHILE</option>
<option value="77,CHINA P RP">CHINA P RP</option>
<option value="79,CHRISTMAS IS.">CHRISTMAS IS.</option>
<option value="81,COCOS IS">COCOS IS</option>
<option value="83,COLOMBIA">COLOMBIA</option>
<option value="85,COMOROS">COMOROS</option>
<option value="459,CONGO D. REP.">CONGO D. REP.</option>
<option value="87,CONGO P REP">CONGO P REP</option>
<option value="89,COOK IS">COOK IS</option>
<option value="91,COSTA RICA">COSTA RICA</option>
<option value="199,COTE D' IVOIRE">COTE D' IVOIRE</option>
<option value="92,CROATIA">CROATIA</option>
<option value="93,CUBA">CUBA</option>
<option value="276,CURACAO">CURACAO</option>
<option value="95,CYPRUS">CYPRUS</option>
<option value="98,CZECH REPUBLIC">CZECH REPUBLIC</option>
<option value="101,DENMARK">DENMARK</option>
<option value="102,DJIBOUTI">DJIBOUTI</option>
<option value="103,DOMINIC REP">DOMINIC REP</option>
<option value="105,DOMINICA">DOMINICA</option>
<option value="109,ECUADOR">ECUADOR</option>
<option value="111,EGYPT A RP">EGYPT A RP</option>
<option value="113,EL SALVADOR">EL SALVADOR</option>
<option value="117,EQUTL GUINEA">EQUTL GUINEA</option>
<option value="116,ERITREA">ERITREA</option>
<option value="114,ESTONIA">ESTONIA</option>
<option value="115,ETHIOPIA">ETHIOPIA</option>
<option value="123,FALKLAND IS">FALKLAND IS</option>
<option value="121,FAROE IS.">FAROE IS.</option>
<option value="127,FIJI IS">FIJI IS</option>
<option value="125,CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Get the form fields - selects and their names
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("form select")).map(s => ({name: s.name, id: s.id, options: Array.from(s.options).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()}))})))' 2>&1 | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
for sel in data:
print(f'\n--- {sel[\"name\"]} (id={sel[\"id\"]}) ---')
# For country, just show count
if len(sel['options']) > 20:
print(f' {len(sel[\"options\"])} options')
print(f' First: {sel[\"options\"][0]}')
print(f' Last: {sel[\"options\"][-1]}')
else:
for o in sel['options']:
print(f' {o}')
" 2>&1--- EidbYearcwace (id=EidbYearcwace) ---
{'value': '2024', 'text': '2024-2025'}
{'value': '2023', 'text': '2023-2024'}
{'value': '2022', 'text': '2022-2023'}
{'value': '2021', 'text': '2021-2022'}
{'value': '2020', 'text': '2020-2021'}
{'value': '2019', 'text': '2019-2020'}
{'value': '2018', 'text': '2018-2019'}
--- EidbCntcwace (id=EidbCntcwace) ---
251 options
First: {'value': '1,AFGHANISTAN', 'text': 'AFGHANISTAN'}
Last: {'value': '463,ZIMBABWE', 'text': 'ZIMBABWE'}
--- EidbReportcwace (id=EidbReportcwace) ---
{'value': '2', 'text': 'US $ Million'}
{'value': '1', 'text': '₹ Crore'}
{'value': '3', 'text': 'Quantity'}
--- EidbComLevelcwace (id=EidbComLevelcwace) ---
{'value': '2', 'text': '2 digit'}
{'value': '4', 'text': '4 digit'}
{'value': '6', 'text': '6 digit'}
{'value': '8', 'text': '8 digit'}Now let me verify the country-wise endpoint works with direct HTTP too:
uv run --python 3.12 --with requests --with lxml python3 -c "
import requests, re
from lxml import html
session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36'
})
# GET country-wise all commodities export
url = 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export'
r = session.get(url, timeout=30)
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
# POST for USA (value='403,U S A'), year 2024, HS2, USD Million
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearcwace': '2024',
'EidbCntcwace': '403,U S A',
'EidbReportcwace': '2',
'EidbComLevelcwace': '2',
}
r2 = session.post(url, data=data, timeout=30)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
# Print headers
headers = doc.xpath('//table//thead//th')
print('Headers:', [h.text_content().strip() for h in headers])
# Print first 3 rows
for row in rows[:3]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
# Last row
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last:', cells)
" 2>&1Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
response = self._make_request(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 488, in _make_request
raise new_e
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 464, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1093, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 796, in connect
sock_and_verified = _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 975, in _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 483, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(sock, context, tls_in_tls, server_hostname)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 527, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 455, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1041, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1319, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 644, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 841, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 490, in increment
raise reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/util.py", line 38, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
response = self._make_request(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 488, in _make_request
raise new_e
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 464, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1093, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 796, in connect
sock_and_verified = _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 975, in _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 483, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(sock, context, tls_in_tls, server_hostname)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 527, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 455, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1041, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1319, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(54, 'Connection reset by peer'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 12, in <module>
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 602, in get
return self.request("GET", url, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 589, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 703, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/4VFm5DZG367KazKRR-XT5/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 659, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(54, 'Connection reset by peer'))
Command exited with code 1It seems the server is rejecting connections from Python. The first request worked but subsequent ones fail. Maybe there's rate limiting, or the server's SSL is finicky. Let me try with curl subprocess approach, or use pycurl, or try with a custom SSL context.
Actually wait - the first test with requests worked fine (Python 3.12 with requests and lxml). But this second one failed. Let me check - maybe the server has some aggressive connection reset for repeated requests. Or maybe I need to use a different approach for TLS.
Let me try with curl_cffi which provides browser-like TLS fingerprints, or try subprocess with curl.
The server is finicky with SSL. The first attempt worked but now it's rejecting. Let me try using curl_cffi which provides browser-like TLS fingerprints:
# Try with curl_cffi which impersonates browser TLS
uv run --python 3.12 --with curl_cffi --with lxml python3 -c "
from curl_cffi import requests
import re
from lxml import html
session = requests.Session(impersonate='chrome')
# GET commodity-wise export
url = 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_export'
r = session.get(url, timeout=30)
print('GET Status:', r.status_code)
# Extract CSRF token
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
print('Token:', token[:20], '...')
# POST
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearCwe': '2024',
'comType': 'all',
'EidbComLevelCwe': '2',
'Eidb_ReportCwe': '2',
}
r2 = session.post(url, data=data, timeout=30)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
for row in rows[:3]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
" 2>&1Downloading curl-cffi (2.9MiB) Downloaded curl-cffi Installed 5 packages in 8ms GET Status: 200 Token: qpTGBBS6XGVVBWh9gLfk ... POST Status: 200 Data rows: 98 ['1', '01', 'LIVE ANIMALS.', '12.37', '0.0028', '19.70', '0.0045', '59.17'] ['2', '02', 'MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL.', '3,832.60', '0.8769', '4,159.00', '0.9502', '8.52'] ['3', '03', 'FISH AND CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC INVERTABRATES.', '6,124.21', '1.4012', '6,296.53', '1.4385', '2.81']
curl_cffi works reliably. Now let me verify the country-wise bilateral endpoint too:
uv run --python 3.12 --with curl_cffi --with lxml python3 -c "
from curl_cffi import requests
import re
from lxml import html
session = requests.Session(impersonate='chrome')
# Country-wise all commodities - bilateral data
url = 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export'
r = session.get(url, timeout=30)
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
# POST for USA
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearcwace': '2024',
'EidbCntcwace': '403,U S A',
'EidbReportcwace': '2',
'EidbComLevelcwace': '2',
}
r2 = session.post(url, data=data, timeout=30)
print('Status:', r2.status_code)
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
headers = doc.xpath('//table//thead//th')
print('Headers:', [h.text_content().strip() for h in headers])
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
for row in rows[:5]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last:', cells)
" 2>&1Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/gTwtp4jmNB9nPWvIUUtiY/lib/python3.12/site-packages/curl_cffi/requests/session.py", line 652, in request
c.perform()
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/gTwtp4jmNB9nPWvIUUtiY/lib/python3.12/site-packages/curl_cffi/curl.py", line 422, in perform
self._check_error(ret, "perform")
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/gTwtp4jmNB9nPWvIUUtiY/lib/python3.12/site-packages/curl_cffi/curl.py", line 199, in _check_error
raise error
curl_cffi.curl.CurlError: Failed to perform, curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. See https://curl.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html first for more details.
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 10, in <module>
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/gTwtp4jmNB9nPWvIUUtiY/lib/python3.12/site-packages/curl_cffi/requests/session.py", line 675, in get
return self.request(method="GET", url=url, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/lakshyaag/.cache/uv/archive-v0/gTwtp4jmNB9nPWvIUUtiY/lib/python3.12/site-packages/curl_cffi/requests/session.py", line 659, in request
raise error(str(e), e.code, rsp) from e
curl_cffi.requests.exceptions.SSLError: Failed to perform, curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. See https://curl.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html first for more details.
Command exited with code 1The server seems to be rate-limiting or resetting connections after a few requests. Let me try adding a delay and reusing the same session, or perhaps the server is simply flaky and needs retries. Let me try with a small delay between requests and retries.
The server is rate-limiting. Let me test with a delay between requests:
uv run --python 3.12 --with curl_cffi --with lxml python3 -c "
from curl_cffi import requests
import re, time
from lxml import html
session = requests.Session(impersonate='chrome')
# Test with delay and retry
for attempt in range(3):
try:
url = 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export'
r = session.get(url, timeout=30)
print(f'GET attempt {attempt+1}: Status {r.status_code}')
break
except Exception as e:
print(f'GET attempt {attempt+1} failed: {e}')
time.sleep(3)
session = requests.Session(impersonate='chrome')
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
print('Token OK')
time.sleep(2)
data = {
'_token': token,
'EidbYearcwace': '2024',
'EidbCntcwace': '403,U S A',
'EidbReportcwace': '2',
'EidbComLevelcwace': '2',
}
r2 = session.post(url, data=data, timeout=30)
print('POST Status:', r2.status_code)
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
headers = doc.xpath('//table//thead//th')
print('Headers:', [h.text_content().strip() for h in headers])
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
for row in rows[:3]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last:', cells)
" 2>&1GET attempt 1: Status 200 Token OK POST Status: 200 Headers: ['S.No.', 'HSCode', 'Commodity', '2023-2024', '2024-2025', '%Growth'] Data rows: 32 ['1', '13', 'LAC; GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS.', '0.00', '0.00', ''] ['2', '17', 'SUGARS AND SUGAR CONFECTIONERY.', '0.07', '0.00', ''] ['3', '19', 'PREPARATIONS OF CEREALS, FLOUR, STARCH OR MILK; PASTRYCOOKS PRODUCTS.', '0.13', '0.11', '-19.16'] ... Last: ['32', '96', 'MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.', '0.00', '0.01', '212.16']
Hmm, that's only 32 rows for the country-wise endpoint (USA). This is the "country-wise all commodities" report which seems to only show commodities that had trade with that specific country. But I'm only getting 32 HS2 items out of 98. Wait, looking more closely - those are HS2 codes but they jump from 13 to 17 to 19. So this report only shows HS codes where trade exists.
Actually, I notice the headers show 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 - it's showing two years in one response. That's different from what I expected.
I'm realizing I might be looking at the wrong endpoint for what we need. The "Country-wise All Commodities" endpoint should give us bilateral data with exports and imports per country, HS2 code, and year, but the USA data is only returning 32 rows when there should be significantly more. Let me dig into the actual values to see what's happening - some entries appear to show zero values which might be filtering them out.
I should explore the other available endpoints to find the most efficient approach. The commodity_wise_all_countries_export endpoint could work as an alternative, giving me all countries for a specific commodity. Now I'm weighing the trade-offs between three main strategies: querying by commodity alone (7 requests), by country and year (1,757 requests), or by commodity and year (~686 requests).
Since I also need import data, the numbers double, making the commodity-based approach significantly more efficient at around 1,372 total requests versus over 3,500 for the country-based approach. Let me verify that endpoint works as expected.
But I'm noticing something odd—the USA test returned only 32 rows for 2024, which seems surprisingly low for all commodities exported by a single country. I should investigate whether that's a data limitation or if I'm hitting the wrong endpoint.
Actually, looking back at the commodity-wise results, I got 98 rows for all HS2 chapters, so it appears the country-wise endpoint filters out zero-trade commodities while the commodity-wise one includes all chapters. That's workable for what I need.
Now I have enough clarity on the approach: I'll use CSRF tokens via GET requests, leverage curl_cffi for browser impersonation to handle TLS, respect the server's rate limiting with delays, and build around the commodity-wise endpoints since they're more efficient for gathering export and import values across all countries and years.
Now let me check the more efficient endpoint — commodity_wise_all_countries_export:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP nav C9A48549 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_all_countries_export' 2>&1Navigated to https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_all_countries_export
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("form select")).map(s => ({name: s.name, id: s.id, options: Array.from(s.options).slice(0,5).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()}))})))' 2>&1 | python3 -m json.tool[
{
"name": "EidbYear_cmace",
"id": "EidbYear_cmace",
"options": [
{
"value": "2024",
"text": "2024-2025"
},
{
"value": "2023",
"text": "2023-2024"
},
{
"value": "2022",
"text": "2022-2023"
},
{
"value": "2021",
"text": "2021-2022"
},
{
"value": "2020",
"text": "2020-2021"
}
]
},
{
"name": "EidbReport_cmace",
"id": "EidbReport_cmace",
"options": [
{
"value": "2",
"text": "US $ Million"
},
{
"value": "1",
"text": "\u20b9 Crore"
}
]
}
]Interesting - commodity_wise_all_countries_export only has Year and Report Type selects, no commodity selector in the dropdown. Let me check the full form to see if there's a radio button for commodity type selection.
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP eval C9A48549 'document.querySelector("form").outerHTML.substring(0, 5000)' 2>&1<form method="post" action="https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_all_countries_export" onsubmit="openLoader()">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="Kv4ozdFcXx3j5i11w7ZQYEE1yjwJ7jSNMA42fQFi" autocomplete="off"> <div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
<label class="mt-2">
<b>HS Code:</b>
</label>
<input type="search" name="Eidbhscode_cmace" id="Eidbhscode_cmace" wire:model="Eidbhscode_cmace" maxlength="8" class="form-control rounded" placeholder="HSCode" aria-label="Search" aria-describedby="search-addon" onkeydown="return isNumeric(event.keyCode);" onkeyup="keyUP(event.keyCode)" required="">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-link" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#exampleModal">
Search HSCode
</button>
<span class="input-group-text border-0" id="search-addon" style="background-color:#ffffff; cursor: pointer;" wire:click="toggleVisibility">
<!-- <i class="fas fa-search"></i> -->
</span>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
<label class="mt-2"><strong>Year:</strong></label>
<select class="form-select" name="EidbYear_cmace" id="EidbYear_cmace" wire:model="EidbYear_cmace" required="">
<option value="2024">2024-2025</option>
<option value="2023">2023-2024</option>
<option value="2022">2022-2023</option>
<option value="2021">2021-2022</option>
<option value="2020">2020-2021</option>
<option value="2019">2019-2020</option>
<option value="2018">2018-2019</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
<label class="mt-2"><strong>Values in:</strong></label>
<select class="form-select" name="EidbReport_cmace" id="EidbReport_cmace" wire:model="EidbReport_cmace" required="">
<option value="2">US $ Million</option>
<option value="1">₹ Crore</option>
</select>
</div>
<!-- <div class="col-md-1">
<button class="btn" type="submit" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;">Submit</button>
</div> -->
<!-- <div class="col-md-1 d-flex justify-content-end">
<button type="button" class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;" id="excel" data-kt-menu-trigger="click" data-kt-menu-placement="bottom-end">Excel</button>
<button class="btn" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;" type="button" onclick="window.print()">Print</button>
</div> -->
<div class="row text-center">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<br>
<center>
<button class="btn" type="submit" style="background-color:#6e0d38bd; color: #fff;">Submit</button>
</center>
</div>
</div>
</div></form>Good — this endpoint takes an HS code, year, and value unit, and returns all countries for that commodity. Let me test it:
sleep 3
uv run --python 3.12 --with curl_cffi --with lxml python3 -c "
from curl_cffi import requests
import re
from lxml import html
session = requests.Session(impersonate='chrome')
url = 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_all_countries_export'
r = session.get(url, timeout=30)
m = re.search(r'name=\"_token\" value=\"([^\"]+)\"', r.text)
token = m.group(1)
import time; time.sleep(1)
# POST for HS code 27 (mineral fuels/petroleum), year 2024, USD Million
data = {
'_token': token,
'Eidbhscode_cmace': '27',
'EidbYear_cmace': '2024',
'EidbReport_cmace': '2',
}
r2 = session.post(url, data=data, timeout=30)
print('Status:', r2.status_code)
doc = html.fromstring(r2.text)
headers = doc.xpath('//table//thead//th')
print('Headers:', [h.text_content().strip() for h in headers])
rows = doc.xpath('//table//tbody//tr')
print(f'Data rows: {len(rows)}')
for row in rows[:5]:
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in row.xpath('td')]
print(cells)
print('...')
cells = [td.text_content().strip() for td in rows[-1].xpath('td')]
print('Last:', cells)
" 2>&1Status: 200 Headers: ['S.No.', 'Country / Region', 'Values in US $ Million', 'Values in Quantity', '2023-2024', '2024-2025', '%Growth', '2023-2024', '2024-2025', '%Growth'] Data rows: 182 ['1', 'AFGHANISTAN', '0.19', '0.40', '113.18', '', '', ''] ['2', 'ALBANIA', '1,068.54', '', '', '', '', ''] ['3', 'ALGERIA', '2.11', '2.51', '18.90', '', '', ''] ['4', 'ANGOLA', '244.16', '2.95', '-98.79', '', '', ''] ['5', 'ANTARTICA', '0.20', '', '', '', '', ''] ... Last: ['182', 'ZIMBABWE', '0.08', '0.07', '-7.44', '', '', '']
Interesting. The commodity_wise_all_countries_export endpoint gives us all countries for a given HS code and year. But it has 8 columns including both values in USD and quantity. The header structure shows it gives both 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 data in one response.
Wait, looking at the headers more carefully:
S.No.
Country / Region
Values in US $ Million (2023-2024)
Values in Quantity (2024-2025)
%Growth
2023-2024 (quantity?)
2024-2025 (quantity?)
%Growth (quantity?)
That's a confusing structure with what looks like sub-headers. Let me check the actual columns more carefully. The data shows 8 cells per row, and looking at the first row, I'm seeing values like '1', 'AFGHANISTAN', '0.19', '0.40' — so it seems like the columns are mixing value and quantity data across different time periods in a way that's not immediately clear from the headers.
With 8 columns of actual data but 10 headers listed, this is definitely a multi-row header situation. I think the real structure is probably: S.No., Country, USD Value 2023-2024, USD Value 2024-2025, USD %Growth, Quantity 2023-2024, Quantity 2024-2025, and Quantity %Growth. That would align the 8 data columns with a logical grouping of financial and quantity metrics across the two time periods.
yo chill dawg. what does the plan say regarding data to collect?
The user wants me to re-read the plan and focus on what data we actually need to collect, rather than exploring every endpoint. Let me re-check the plan.
From the plan:
Scope:
Key data needed:
Now I'm looking at the schema I need — HS2 codes as integers, commodity and country as categories for compression, financial year as a category, and values stored as float32. The strategy is to iterate through each country and pull all HS2 commodities for that country-year combination, which means about 3,318 API requests total across 237 countries, 7 years, and both export/import directions. The endpoint I should use is country_wise_all_commodities.
I'm noticing there are actually three endpoints available — the country-first approach I planned, plus a commodity-first alternative that would cut requests down to around 1,372. The commodity-first method would be more efficient, but I'll stick with the country-first strategy as outlined in the plan.
You're right, let me step back. The plan says:
Data to collect:
Target schema:
| Column | Type |
|---|---|
hs_code | int8 (1–96) |
commodity | category |
country | category |
financial_year | category |
value_usd_mn | float32 |
Strategy: Country-first iteration → for each country, get all HS2 commodities for that country-year. ~3,318 requests (251 countries × 7 years × 2 trade types).
We've confirmed the key endpoint: country_wise_all_commodities_{export,import} works via plain HTTP POST with curl_cffi (no Selenium needed).
Want me to now set up the uv project and build the scraper?
yes start by setting up the project. i can tweak the specifics
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp && lsdocs India-Trade-Data IndiaTrade
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp && uv init india-trade-analysis --python 3.12 2>&1Initialized project `india-trade-analysis` at `/Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis`
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && ls -latotal 32 drwxr-xr-x@ 8 lakshyaag staff 256 Mar 22 18:48 . drwxr-xr-x@ 8 lakshyaag staff 256 Mar 22 18:48 .. drwxr-xr-x@ 9 lakshyaag staff 288 Mar 22 18:48 .git -rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag staff 109 Mar 22 18:48 .gitignore -rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag staff 5 Mar 22 18:48 .python-version -rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag staff 98 Mar 22 18:48 main.py -rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag staff 166 Mar 22 18:48 pyproject.toml -rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag staff 0 Mar 22 18:48 README.md
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv add curl-cffi lxml pandas pyarrow 2>&1Using CPython 3.12.13 Creating virtual environment at: .venv Resolved 12 packages in 68ms Downloading lxml (8.3MiB) Downloading pandas (9.4MiB) Downloading pyarrow (32.6MiB) Downloading curl-cffi (2.9MiB) Downloading numpy (5.0MiB) Downloaded curl-cffi Downloaded numpy Downloaded lxml Downloaded pandas Downloaded pyarrow Prepared 5 packages in 8.72s Installed 10 packages in 49ms + certifi==2026.2.25 + cffi==2.0.0 + curl-cffi==0.14.0 + lxml==6.0.2 + numpy==2.4.3 + pandas==3.0.1 + pyarrow==23.0.1 + pycparser==3.0 + python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0 + six==1.17.0
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && mkdir -p scraper data/raw data/processed analysis(no output)
Now let me get the full country list from the browser and build the config:
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#EidbCntcwace option")).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()})))' 2>&1 > /tmp/countries_full.json
python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('/tmp/countries_full.json')); print(len(d)); print(d[:3])"0 []
CDP="/Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/pasky/chrome-cdp-skill/skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs"
# Need to navigate back to the country_wise page first
$CDP nav C9A48549 'https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export' 2>&1
sleep 3
$CDP eval C9A48549 'JSON.stringify(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("#EidbCntcwace option")).map(o => ({value: o.value, text: o.textContent.trim()})))' 2>&1 > /tmp/countries_full.json
python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('/tmp/countries_full.json')); print(f'{len(d)} countries'); print(d[:3]); print(d[-3:])"Navigated to https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/country_wise_all_commodities_export
251 countries
[{'value': '1,AFGHANISTAN', 'text': 'AFGHANISTAN'}, {'value': '3,ALBANIA', 'text': 'ALBANIA'}, {'value': '5,ALGERIA', 'text': 'ALGERIA'}]
[{'value': '453,YEMEN REPUBLC', 'text': 'YEMEN REPUBLC'}, {'value': '461,ZAMBIA', 'text': 'ZAMBIA'}, {'value': '463,ZIMBABWE', 'text': 'ZIMBABWE'}]Good. Now let me build the project files:
rm /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/main.py(no output)
Now let's test it:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -m scraper.scrape --test 2>&118:50:43 [INFO] Starting scrape: 1 trade_types × 2 years × 3 countries = 6 requests 18:50:43 [INFO] Fetching CSRF token for export/2023-2024 ... 18:50:45 [WARNING] CSRF fetch failed (attempt 1): Failed to perform, curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. See https://curl.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html first for more details. 18:50:53 [INFO] [1/6] export 2023-2024 U S A → 33 rows 18:50:55 [WARNING] [2/6] export 2023-2024 CHINA P RP attempt 1 failed: HTTP Error 419: unknown status 18:51:02 [WARNING] [2/6] export 2023-2024 CHINA P RP attempt 2 failed: HTTP Error 419: unknown status 18:51:09 [INFO] [2/6] export 2023-2024 CHINA P RP → 96 rows 18:51:11 [WARNING] [3/6] export 2023-2024 U ARAB EMTS attempt 1 failed: HTTP Error 419: unknown status 18:51:17 [INFO] [3/6] export 2023-2024 U ARAB EMTS → 81 rows 18:51:19 [INFO] Fetching CSRF token for export/2024-2025 ... 18:51:20 [INFO] [4/6] export 2024-2025 U S A → 32 rows 18:51:22 [WARNING] [5/6] export 2024-2025 CHINA P RP attempt 1 failed: HTTP Error 419: unknown status 18:51:32 [INFO] [5/6] export 2024-2025 CHINA P RP → 95 rows 18:51:34 [WARNING] [6/6] export 2024-2025 U ARAB EMTS attempt 1 failed: HTTP Error 419: unknown status 18:51:42 [INFO] [6/6] export 2024-2025 U ARAB EMTS → 85 rows 18:51:44 [INFO] Saved export (422 rows) → /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/data/processed/exports.parquet 18:51:44 [INFO] No failures! 18:51:44 [INFO] Done. 6 successful, 0 failed.
It works! But the 419 errors (CSRF token expiry) show we need to refresh the token more aggressively. The retry logic handles it, but let me optimize — refresh the token after every POST since the server issues a new one in each response:
Now update the caller to use the returned token:
Let's re-run the test to confirm the token rotation eliminates the 419s:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && rm -rf data/processed/* && uv run python -m scraper.scrape --test 2>&1(no output) Command exited with code 137
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && rm -rf data/processed/* && uv run python -m scraper.scrape --test 2>&1(no output) Command exited with code 137
The process is getting killed (code 137 = SIGKILL, likely OOM or the timeout). Let me try running it with a longer timeout, or maybe there's an issue with the process. Let me try running it directly and capturing output in a file.
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && rm -rf data/processed/* && uv run python -m scraper.scrape --test > /tmp/scrape_test.log 2>&1 &
echo "PID: $!"PID: 14282
sleep 30 && cat /tmp/scrape_test.log(no output)
ps aux | grep scraper | grep -v grep; cat /tmp/scrape_test.log 2>&1; ls -la /tmp/scrape_test.log-rw-r--r--@ 1 lakshyaag wheel 0 Mar 22 18:52 /tmp/scrape_test.log
Process already exited and log is empty. Something wrong with the module path. Let me debug:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -c "from scraper.config import COUNTRIES; print(len(COUNTRIES))" 2>&1(no output) Command exited with code 137
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -c "print('hello')" 2>&1(no output) Command exited with code 137
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && cat pyproject.toml[project]
name = "india-trade-analysis"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Add your description here"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.12"
dependencies = [
"curl-cffi>=0.14.0",
"lxml>=6.0.2",
"pandas>=3.0.1",
"pyarrow>=23.0.1",
]cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -c "print('hello')"(no output) Command exited with code 137
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && .venv/bin/python -c "print('hello')" 2>&1/bin/bash: line 1: 16056 Killed: 9 .venv/bin/python -c "print('hello')" 2>&1
Command exited with code 137# Check if the Python 3.12 binary is corrupt or quarantined
ls -la /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv/bin/python
file /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv/bin/python
xattr -l /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv/bin/python 2>&1lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 lakshyaag staff 86 Mar 22 18:48 /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv/bin/python -> /Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.12 /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv/bin/python: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64 com.apple.provenance:
# Maybe it's the cpython-3.12 build that's recently installed and not yet signed
# Let me check which 3.12 version and try python3 system
python3 --version 2>&1
which python3 2>&1
python3 -c "print('hello')" 2>&1Python 3.14.3 /Users/lakshyaag/.pi/agent/git/github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/intercepted-commands/python3 hello
# The 3.12 binary from uv is being killed by macOS. Let's try 3.13 or recreate with 3.14
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
uv python list --only-installed 2>&1 | head -10cpython-3.14.3-macos-aarch64-none /Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.14-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.14 cpython-3.13.12-macos-aarch64-none /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.13 -> ../Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.12_1/bin/python3.13 cpython-3.12.13-macos-aarch64-none /Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.12 cpython-3.11.15-macos-aarch64-none /Users/lakshyaag/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.11-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.11 cpython-3.9.6-macos-aarch64-none /usr/bin/python3
# Try 3.13 from homebrew which should be properly signed
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3.13 -c "print('hello')" 2>&1hello
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
rm -rf .venv
# Recreate venv with 3.13 from homebrew
uv venv --python 3.13 2>&1
uv sync 2>&1Using CPython 3.13.12 interpreter at: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.13/bin/python3.13 Creating virtual environment at: .venv error: Failed to create virtual environment Caused by: A virtual environment already exists at `/Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/.venv`. Use `--clear` to replace it Resolved 12 packages in 2ms Checked 10 packages in 0.25ms
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
uv venv --python 3.13 --clear 2>&1 && uv sync 2>&1Using CPython 3.13.12 interpreter at: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.13/bin/python3.13 Creating virtual environment at: .venv Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate Using CPython 3.12.13 Removed virtual environment at: .venv Creating virtual environment at: .venv Resolved 12 packages in 0.57ms Installed 10 packages in 29ms + certifi==2026.2.25 + cffi==2.0.0 + curl-cffi==0.14.0 + lxml==6.0.2 + numpy==2.4.3 + pandas==3.0.1 + pyarrow==23.0.1 + pycparser==3.0 + python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0 + six==1.17.0
It still recreated with 3.12 because pyproject.toml says requires-python = ">=3.12" and .python-version says 3.12. Let me update .python-version to 3.13.
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
cat .python-version3.12
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis
uv venv --python 3.13 --clear 2>&1 && uv sync 2>&1Using CPython 3.13.12 interpreter at: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.13/bin/python3.13 Creating virtual environment at: .venv Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate Resolved 12 packages in 2ms Downloading numpy (5.0MiB) Downloading lxml (8.2MiB) Downloading pyarrow (32.6MiB) Downloading pandas (9.4MiB) Downloaded numpy Downloaded lxml Downloaded pandas Downloaded pyarrow Prepared 5 packages in 5.15s Installed 10 packages in 51ms + certifi==2026.2.25 + cffi==2.0.0 + curl-cffi==0.14.0 + lxml==6.0.2 + numpy==2.4.3 + pandas==3.0.1 + pyarrow==23.0.1 + pycparser==3.0 + python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0 + six==1.17.0
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -c "print('hello')" 2>&1hello
Now let's re-run the test:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && rm -rf data/processed/* && uv run python -m scraper.scrape --test 2>&118:54:07 [INFO] Starting scrape: 1 trade_types × 2 years × 3 countries = 6 requests 18:54:07 [INFO] Fetching CSRF token for export/2023-2024 ... 18:54:07 [WARNING] CSRF fetch failed (attempt 1): Failed to perform, curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. See https://curl.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html first for more details. 18:54:14 [INFO] [1/6] export 2023-2024 U S A → 33 rows 18:54:16 [INFO] [2/6] export 2023-2024 CHINA P RP → 96 rows 18:54:18 [INFO] [3/6] export 2023-2024 U ARAB EMTS → 81 rows 18:54:20 [INFO] Fetching CSRF token for export/2024-2025 ... 18:54:21 [INFO] [4/6] export 2024-2025 U S A → 32 rows 18:54:23 [INFO] [5/6] export 2024-2025 CHINA P RP → 95 rows 18:54:24 [INFO] [6/6] export 2024-2025 U ARAB EMTS → 85 rows 18:54:27 [INFO] Saved export (422 rows) → /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis/data/processed/exports.parquet 18:54:27 [INFO] No failures! 18:54:27 [INFO] Done. 6 successful, 0 failed.
No more 419 errors with token rotation. Let's verify the output:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && uv run python -c "
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_parquet('data/processed/exports.parquet')
print(df.dtypes)
print()
print(df.shape)
print()
print(df.head(10).to_string())
print()
print('Countries:', df['country'].unique().tolist())
print('Years:', df['financial_year'].unique().tolist())
print('HS codes range:', df['hs_code'].min(), '-', df['hs_code'].max())
print('Value range:', df['value_usd_mn'].min(), '-', df['value_usd_mn'].max())
print('Nulls:', df['value_usd_mn'].isna().sum())
" 2>&1hs_code int8 commodity category value_usd_mn float32 country category financial_year category dtype: object (422, 5) hs_code commodity value_usd_mn country financial_year 0 13 LAC; GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS. 0.00 U S A 2023-2024 1 17 SUGARS AND SUGAR CONFECTIONERY. 0.07 U S A 2023-2024 2 19 PREPARATIONS OF CEREALS, FLOUR, STARCH OR MILK; PASTRYCOOKS PRODUCTS. 0.13 U S A 2023-2024 3 23 RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODER. 0.02 U S A 2023-2024 4 25 SALT; SULPHUR; EARTHS AND STONE; PLASTERING MATERIALS, LIME AND CEMENT. 0.02 U S A 2023-2024 5 27 MINERAL FUELS, MINERAL OILS AND PRODUCTS OF THEIR DISTILLATION; BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES; MINERAL WAXES. 0.00 U S A 2023-2024 6 30 PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS 0.69 U S A 2023-2024 7 33 ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS; PERFUMERY, COSMETIC OR TOILET PREPARATIONS. 0.01 U S A 2023-2024 8 34 SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREP. 0.00 U S A 2023-2024 9 38 MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. 0.03 U S A 2023-2024 Countries: ['U S A', 'CHINA P RP', 'U ARAB EMTS'] Years: ['2023-2024', '2024-2025'] HS codes range: 2 - 99 Value range: 0.0 - 3702.13 Nulls: 0
Everything looks clean. Let me check the final project structure:
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && find . -not -path './.venv/*' -not -path './.git/*' -not -name '__pycache__' | sort. ./.git ./.gitignore ./.python-version ./.venv ./analysis ./data ./data/processed ./data/processed/exports.parquet ./data/raw ./pyproject.toml ./README.md ./scraper ./scraper/__init__.py ./scraper/__main__.py ./scraper/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-312.pyc ./scraper/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-313.pyc ./scraper/__pycache__/config.cpython-312.pyc ./scraper/__pycache__/config.cpython-313.pyc ./scraper/__pycache__/scrape.cpython-312.pyc ./scraper/__pycache__/scrape.cpython-313.pyc ./scraper/config.py ./scraper/scrape.py ./uv.lock
cd /Users/lakshyaag/Projects/Personal/India-Trade-Revamp/india-trade-analysis && echo "__pycache__/" >> .gitignore && echo "data/" >> .gitignore && cat .gitignore# Python-generated files __pycache__/ *.py[oc] build/ dist/ wheels/ *.egg-info # Virtual environments .venv __pycache__/ data/
Here's what's set up:
Project: india-trade-analysis/
india-trade-analysis/ ├── scraper/ │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── __main__.py # python -m scraper entry point │ ├── config.py # 251 countries, 7 years, endpoints, form fields │ └── scrape.py # HTTP scraper using curl_cffi (no Selenium) ├── data/ │ ├── raw/ # for failed.json │ └── processed/ # exports.parquet, imports.parquet ├── analysis/ # (empty, ready for notebooks) ├── pyproject.toml # uv project, deps: curl-cffi, lxml, pandas, pyarrow └── .python-version # 3.13
Key design choices:
curl_cffi with Chrome TLS impersonation — no Selenium/Playwright needed. The site is just a standard HTML form with CSRF tokens_token; we extract and reuse it, eliminating 419 errorsUsage:
The test run (6 requests) completed in ~20s with 422 rows, all correct dtypes, no failures. Ready for you to tweak and run the full scrape.
what are you doing with the raw country level data?
Looking at the plan:
Schema:
hs_code,commodity,country,financial_year,value_usd_mn
The country_wise_all_commodities endpoint returns a table with columns:
S.No. | HSCode | Commodity | <prev_year> | <curr_year> | %Growth
Right now parse_table takes column index 4 (the current year value) and throws away the previous year's value. That's wasteful — we're making 3,514 requests but only keeping half the data the server gives us.
We could grab both year columns from each response, which would give us overlapping coverage and let us cross-validate values. But it also means deduplication logic.
Alternatively — the simpler question: should I just keep doing what we're doing (one value per request, matching the plan's schema), or do you want to capture both years from each response?
what are you doing with the raw country level data? how is the scraper set up to track progress? are we throwing away the raw country level data after converting to parquet?
The user is raising valid concerns:
Raw data preservation - Currently we're not saving any raw HTML or intermediate data. We parse the table in memory and only save the final parquet. If something goes wrong with parsing, we lose everything.
Progress tracking - Currently there's no checkpointing. If the scrape crashes at request 2000/3514, we start from scratch. There's no way to resume.
Data pipeline - We're going straight from HTTP response → parse → in-memory list → parquet at the end. If the process dies, all in-memory data is lost.
These are real architectural problems that need addressing before we jump into solutions.
Good catches — three real problems with the current setup:
No raw data saved. We parse the HTML table in-memory and discard the response. If the parsing logic has a bug (wrong column index, edge case HTML), there's no way to re-parse without re-scraping all 3,514 pages.
No progress tracking / checkpointing. Everything accumulates in a list[dict] in memory. If the process dies at request 2,000, all 2,000 results are lost. There's no resume — you start over.
Single write at the end. save_results() only runs after the entire loop finishes. A 3,514-request scrape at ~2s each is ~2 hours — one crash and it's all gone.
What I'd suggest instead:
data/raw/{trade_type}/{year}/{country}.html — lets us re-parse later without re-scrapingWant me to rework the scraper with this approach?
yes - please plan the hardening of the scraper and make it really modular. i think an appraoch where i can specify country + year and it gets dispatched as a task could work? brainstorm with me