We extract building designs, firm profiles, structural metadata, and design news from E-Architect. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to your warehouse.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Projects objects from e-architect.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"project_id": "EA-84921", "title": "Oslo Opera House", "location": "Oslo, Norway", "architect_firm": "Snohetta", "completion_year": 2008, "area_sqm": 38500, "building_type": "Cultural", "client": "Ministry of Church and Cultural Affairs"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Firms objects from e-architect.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"firm_id": "F-1024", "firm_name": "Zaha Hadid Architects", "founded_year": 1979, "hq_location": "London, UK", "key_architects": "['Zaha Hadid', 'Patrik Schumacher']", "website_url": "zaha-hadid.com", "notable_projects": "['Guangzhou Opera House', 'London Aquatics Centre']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for News & Articles objects from e-architect.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_id": "N-59210", "headline": "New Sustainable Timber Pavilion in Milan", "author": "Isabelle Taylor", "publish_date": "2023-09-14", "category": "Exhibition Design", "tags": "['Timber', 'Sustainability', 'Milan Design Week']", "source_url": "https://www.e-architect.co.uk/milan/timber-pavilion"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Competitions objects from e-architect.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"competition_id": "C-883", "competition_name": "Helsinki South Harbour Redevelopment", "deadline_date": "2024-11-30", "prize_fund": "100,000 EUR", "eligibility": "Open to registered architects globally", "location": "Helsinki, Finland", "status": "Open"
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Complete list of extractable fields for City Guides objects from e-architect.co.uk. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"city_name": "Copenhagen", "country": "Denmark", "total_buildings_listed": 142, "featured_projects": "['CopenHill', 'VM Houses', 'The Blue Planet']", "key_architects": "['BIG', '3XN', 'Henning Larsen']", "last_updated": "2023-10-05"
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Our e-architect.co.uk scraper parses unstructured article text to extract clean metadata for projects, firms, and competitions. We handle the formatting inconsistencies so you get normalised records.
Architect, structural engineer, client, and completion date mapped to clean schemas from unstructured article bodies.
Extract studio biographies, key personnel, contact details, and portfolio links across global regions.
Monitor daily architectural news, product launches, and urban planning developments as they are published.
Track submission deadlines, jury panels, and prize funds for global design competitions.
Extract high-resolution image URLs for building elevations, floor plans, and renders.
Map architectural landmarks and walking tour data by city and region.
Extract supplier and material specifications embedded within project descriptions.
Scrape decades of architectural project history and legacy articles dating back to the early 2000s.
Run pipelines daily or weekly to capture new project publications and industry news.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, cities, or firm names. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, text parsing logic, and pagination handling for e-architect.co.uk.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and entity extraction verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or data warehouse on agreed cadence.
E-Architect is a content-heavy site with decades of legacy formatting. Here is how we turn unstructured articles into queryable data.
E-Architect uses deep historical archives. We traverse complex pagination structures to ensure zero data loss across decades of publications.
Project metadata is often buried in article text. Our pipeline uses regex and NLP to extract structured entities like structural engineers and square footage.
Architecture relies on visual data. We extract and validate high-resolution image URLs, mapping floor plans and exterior shots to specific project IDs.
While less aggressive than major e-commerce platforms, sustained scraping triggers IP bans. We distribute requests across residential proxies to maintain throughput.
Formatting varies wildly between 2008 and 2024 articles. We normalise dates, locations, and firm names into a consistent warehouse schema.
Suppliers analyse project volumes by region and building type to forecast material demand.
B2B sales teams extract firm contact details and new project announcements to pitch services.
Urban planners and researchers track architectural trends, sustainability metrics, and city development over time.
Architecture firms monitor rival portfolios, competition entries, and media coverage.
ML teams use extensive architectural text and image pairs to train domain-specific models.
Professionals track global design competitions, exhibitions, and award deadlines.
"E-Architect holds decades of global design history and project metadata, but extracting structural details from unstructured articles requires purpose-built parsing."
Architecture databases often lack unified APIs. We build pipelines that parse heterogeneous article formats, extract embedded metadata, and normalise global firm profiles. DataFlirt handles the extraction complexity so your team can focus on spatial analysis and market intelligence.
Everything supported by our e-architect.co.uk scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright is deployed for pages requiring JavaScript execution to load image galleries.
Custom Python middleware uses regex and NLP libraries to extract structured entities from unstructured article bodies.
Pipelines run on AWS infrastructure. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About e-architect.co.uk scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available information is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public project data, news, and firm profiles. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.
We use custom text-parsing rules and NLP to identify standard architectural metadata blocks (e.g., 'Architect:', 'Structural Engineer:', 'Client:') embedded within the article text.
We extract and deliver the high-resolution image URLs. We do not host or download the image files directly to our servers.
Pipelines can be configured to run daily or weekly to capture new project publications, news articles, and competition announcements.
Yes. We can traverse the entire site archive to extract projects and articles published since the site's inception.
Our minimum engagement typically starts at 10,000 records or a continuous daily pipeline for specific categories. Contact us to scope your specific requirements.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical dump of 40,000 projects or a daily feed of global design news — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.
