Angel.co Startup Parser

A project that contains two cli tool for fetchting startup datas from ancel.co and converts to csv files

• angel.rb: This CLI fetches startup datas from angel.co by given market tag and creates a SQLite database.
• sqlite_to_csv_converter.rb: This CLI creates two csv file (nodes.csv, edges.csv) with fetched data by angel.rb for use in GraphCommons.

Current Status: Angel.co doesn't expose its api anymore, so these tools have lost their functionality.

Features

• Custom database views

Motivation

The motivation of this project came from PhD Aslı Boyraz Yazagan, a lecturer at Rize University. She asked me to develop these tools to use in academic conference (ICITS - International Conference on Information Technology and Science). We used these tools to pull startups operating in the internet of things market, other markets they are related to, and their locations and convert them into a graph. You can see the result of the study below:

Requirements

• Ruby >= 2.2.x
• Bundler(gem install bundler)
• See also Gemfile

Usage

1. Install dependencies

$ bundler install

2. Configure

First of all, rename the following files:

• config.example.yml => config.yml
• views.example.yml => views.yml (optional, if you want add a new database view(s))

and edit those files by yourself.

3. Create database

Run ruby angel.rb -m "[Market Tag]" or just ruby angel.rb command, and then follow the steps.

4. Convert database to CSV files (for import GraphCommons)

$ ruby sqlite_to_csv_converter.rb -d [Database directory]

Output database schema

License

Apache 2.0