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RUN - 14 active pipelines - aepcindia.com live

Indian apparel export data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract exporter directories, RCMC records, compliance data, and circulars from AEPC India. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Exporters extracted
8,412 /run
Circulars parsed
3,104 /month
RCMC updates
1,240 /24h
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.85%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from aepcindia.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Member Directory objects from aepcindia.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

member_idcompany_namecontact_persondesignationaddresscitystatepincodephoneemailwebsiteproducts_manufactured
member_directory
● 200 OK
"member_id": "AEPC/REG/2026/8492",
"company_name": "Tirupur Knitwear Exports Pvt Ltd",
"contact_person": "Ramesh Kumar",
"designation": "Managing Director",
"city": "Tirupur",
"state": "Tamil Nadu",
"pincode": "641604",
"products_manufactured": "['Knitted T-Shirts', 'Loungewear']"
# member_idcompany_namecontact_persondesignationaddresscity
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Complete list of extractable fields for RCMC Details objects from aepcindia.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

rcmc_numbercompany_nameissue_dateexpiry_datestatusexport_house_statusiec_codemembership_typepan_numberlast_updated
rcmc_details
● 200 OK
"rcmc_number": "RCMC/2024/TK/991",
"company_name": "Tirupur Knitwear Exports Pvt Ltd",
"issue_date": "2024-04-01",
"expiry_date": "2029-03-31",
"status": "Active",
"export_house_status": "Two Star Export House",
"iec_code": "0492817734",
"membership_type": "Manufacturer Exporter"
# rcmc_numbercompany_nameissue_dateexpiry_datestatusexport_house_status
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Complete list of extractable fields for Trade Fair Participation objects from aepcindia.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

event_nameevent_datelocationparticipant_companystall_numberproducts_displayedrepresentative_nameb2b_meetings_scheduledsubsidy_availed
trade_fair participation
● 200 OK
"event_name": "India International Garment Fair 2026",
"event_date": "2026-07-15",
"location": "Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi",
"participant_company": "Tirupur Knitwear Exports Pvt Ltd",
"stall_number": "Hall 4, Stall B-12",
"products_displayed": "['Sustainable Cotton Knits', 'Activewear']",
"representative_name": "Anita Desai"
# event_nameevent_datelocationparticipant_companystall_numberproducts_displayed
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Complete list of extractable fields for Circulars & Notifications objects from aepcindia.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

circular_iddate_issuedsubjectcategorydepartmentpdf_urlextracted_textapplicable_toscraped_at
circulars_& notifications
● 200 OK
"circular_id": "CIR/POLICY/2026/04",
"date_issued": "2026-02-10",
"subject": "Revised Guidelines for RoSCTL Scheme",
"category": "Policy",
"department": "Ministry of Textiles",
"pdf_url": "https://aepcindia.com/circulars/rosctl-2026.pdf",
"applicable_to": "['All Members', 'Garment Exporters']",
"scraped_at": "2026-02-11T08:14:00Z"
# circular_iddate_issuedsubjectcategorydepartmentpdf_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Export Statistics objects from aepcindia.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

monthyearproduct_categoryhs_codeexport_value_usdexport_value_inryoy_growth_pcttop_destinationsdata_source
export_statistics
● 200 OK
"month": "January",
"year": 2026,
"product_category": "RMG Cotton",
"hs_code": "610910",
"export_value_usd": 145000000.0,
"export_value_inr": 12035000000.0,
"yoy_growth_pct": 4.2,
"top_destinations": "['USA', 'UK', 'UAE']"
# monthyearproduct_categoryhs_codeexport_value_usdexport_value_inr
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Capabilities

Extracting Indian apparel trade data with precision

AEPC India relies on legacy web architecture and PDF-heavy documentation. We handle the ViewState navigation, session timeouts, and OCR extraction to deliver structured exporter intelligence.

Member Directory Extraction

Company names, contact persons, addresses, phone numbers, and product specialisations scraped across all state and city filters.

RCMC Status Tracking

Monitor Registration-cum-Membership Certificate validity, IEC codes, and export house status for compliance and verification.

Automated PDF Parsing

Extract text, tables, and policy updates from government circulars and notifications using our integrated OCR pipeline.

Trade Fair & Event Data

Capture participant lists, stall allocations, and product displays from domestic and international garment fairs.

Legacy DOM Navigation

Handle ASP.NET ViewState, complex form submissions, and non-standard pagination logic inherent to government web portals.

Contact Information Parsing

Clean and normalise phone numbers, email addresses, and postal codes into standard formats for CRM ingestion.

Export Statistics Aggregation

Parse monthly export data, HS code breakdowns, and destination metrics into queryable time-series tables.

Incremental Updates

Hash-based change detection ensures you only receive new members, updated RCMC statuses, or recent circulars.

Scheduled Delivery

Run pipelines daily or weekly to maintain an accurate catalogue of Indian apparel exporters in your warehouse.

// engagement pipeline

From legacy portal to structured warehouse

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Specify target regions, product categories, or document types. We map the extraction schema to your business requirements.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers to handle AEPC's ASP.NET forms, session logic, and PDF extraction pipelines.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and contact data normalisation before deploying to production.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on an agreed cadence.

Under the hood

Overcoming legacy infrastructure challenges

Government and trade council websites require specific engineering approaches. Here is how we build resilient pipelines for AEPC India.

pipeline-monitor · aepcindia.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Form handling
ASP.NET ViewState management

AEPC relies heavily on legacy ASP.NET web forms. Our crawlers preserve ViewState and EventValidation tokens across POST requests, ensuring pagination and search filters work reliably without session drops.

Document processing
Integrated PDF OCR pipeline

Crucial policy updates and export statistics are often uploaded as scanned PDFs. We route these documents through pdfplumber and Tesseract OCR, converting image-based text into structured JSON fields.

Data cleaning
Address and contact normalisation

Data entry on trade portals is notoriously inconsistent. We apply regex patterns and address-parsing libraries to separate street, city, state, and pincode, while standardising Indian phone numbers.

Rate limiting
Polite crawling for legacy servers

Quasi-government servers frequently crash under high concurrent load. We strictly control request concurrency and implement exponential backoff to extract data without disrupting the target site.

Change detection
Hash-based state tracking

We hash member profiles and RCMC records during each run. If a certificate expires or contact details change, our pipeline isolates and delivers only the modified records.

Applications

Who uses AEPC India data - and how

Teams across industries use aepcindia.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
B2B Lead Generation

Logistics providers, packaging companies, and fabric mills use the member directory to build targeted outreach lists for apparel exporters.

02
Supply Chain Sourcing

International fashion brands and buying houses query product specialisations to find verified knitted or woven garment manufacturers.

03
Compliance Monitoring

Customs brokers and financial institutions verify RCMC status and IEC codes to ensure exporters meet regulatory requirements.

04
Market Research

Trade analysts aggregate monthly export statistics and HS code data to track the growth and decline of specific apparel categories.

05
Event Marketing

Trade show organisers extract participant lists from past IIGF events to recruit exhibitors for upcoming international textile fairs.

06
Policy Tracking

Consultancies monitor circulars and notifications to advise clients on changes to RoSCTL, duty drawbacks, and export incentives.

Why DataFlirt

"The AEPC directory is the definitive registry of India's apparel export capacity, but extracting intelligence from its legacy architecture requires specialised engineering."

Most data teams struggle with ASP.NET ViewState tokens, inconsistent data entry, and PDF-locked statistics. DataFlirt handles the complex navigation, session management, and OCR extraction required to turn AEPC's portal into a clean, queryable relational database for your CRM or data warehouse.

Technical Spec

AEPC India scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our aepcindia.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Member directory pagination
Navigates complex ASP.NET postbacks to extract all records across pages
Supported
PDF circular OCR
Converts scanned policy documents into searchable text fields
Supported
RCMC validity tracking
Extracts issue dates, expiry dates, and current status for compliance
Supported
Legacy ViewState handling
Maintains session state tokens required for search filters to function
Supported
Contact normalisation
Cleans and formats phone numbers and addresses into structured components
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time CRM ingestion
Supported
Member-only internal forums
Discussions and proprietary member communications behind login walls
Partial
Unredacted financial audits
Private company financials not explicitly published in the public directory
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the AEPC pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheuspdfplumberTesseract OCR
Legacy Form Handling

Custom Scrapy middlewares designed to parse, store, and inject ASP.NET ViewState and EventValidation tokens, ensuring reliable pagination across thousands of directory pages.

Integrated PDF Parsing

A dedicated worker queue downloads PDF circulars and routes them through pdfplumber and Tesseract OCR. The extracted text is attached to the structured metadata record.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state is stored in managed PostgreSQL.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Native Excel format for immediate business user access
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted dataset on demand
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About aepcindia.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping AEPC India legal?

Scraping publicly available directory information and government circulars is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated exporter data, RCMC statuses, and trade statistics. We do not bypass login walls to access private member forums. Clients should consult legal counsel regarding the commercial use of government-published directories.

How do you handle the legacy ASP.NET architecture?

AEPC relies on ViewState tokens for navigation. Our Scrapy pipelines are configured to capture these hidden tokens on the initial GET request and pass them sequentially in subsequent POST requests, ensuring pagination and search filters do not break.

Can you extract text from PDF circulars?

Yes. Our pipeline downloads PDF files and processes them using pdfplumber and Tesseract OCR. We extract the raw text, identify key entities like dates and subjects, and deliver it alongside the original document URL.

How fresh is the RCMC data?

We can schedule the pipeline to run daily or weekly. RCMC statuses, issue dates, and expiry dates are checked against the live portal, and any changes are pushed to your warehouse via our change-detection system.

Do you provide contact details for lead generation?

Yes. We extract the company name, contact person, designation, phone numbers, emails, and physical addresses as published in the public member directory. We also apply basic normalisation to fix formatting errors.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

We typically scope engagements based on delivery frequency and data volume. A standard package includes a full initial extraction of the member directory followed by weekly incremental updates. Contact us with your specific requirements for a quote.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=aepcindia.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off export of the member directory or continuous monitoring of RCMC compliance and circulars, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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