In this article we will see how to make a script to get the details of corona virus cases i.e total cases, recovered cases and total deaths only by typing the name of the country.
Modules required and Installation:
Requests : Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs.
pip install requests
Beautiful Soup: Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree.
pip install beautifulsoup4
In order to make this script we have to do the following :
1. From the name of the country create URL
2. Scrape the data with the help of requests and Beautiful Soup
3. Convert that data into html code.
4. Find the required details and filter them.
5. Save the result in the dictionary.
Below is the implementation –
Python3
# importing libraries from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS import requests # method to get the info def get_info(country_name): # creating url using country name # getting the request from url data = requests.get(url) # converting the text soup = BS(data.text, 'html.parser') # finding meta info for cases cases = soup.find_all("div", class_ = "maincounter-number") # getting total cases number total = cases[0].text # filtering it total = total[1 : len(total) - 2] # getting recovered cases number recovered = cases[2].text # filtering it recovered = recovered[1 : len(recovered) - 1] # getting death cases number deaths = cases[1].text # filtering it deaths = deaths[1 : len(deaths) - 1] # saving details in dictionary ans ={'Total Cases' : total, 'Recovered Cases' : recovered, 'Total Deaths' : deaths} # returning the dictionary return ans # setting country name country_name = "us" # calling the get_info method us = get_info(country_name) # printing the results for us print("Cases in United States") for i, j in us.items(): print(i + " : " + j) print("----------------------------") # setting country name to india country_name = "india" # calling the get_info method india = get_info(country_name) # printing the results for us print("Cases in India") for i, j in india.items(): print(i + " : " + j) |
Output :
Cases in United States Total Cases : 654,343 Recovered Cases : 56,618 Total Deaths : 33,490 ---------------------------- Cases in India Total Cases : 12,759 Recovered Cases : 1,514 Total Deaths : 423
