Covid-19 Statistics in 30 lines of python.

How about crawling the Ministry of Health Welfare for COVID-19 case statistics in just 5 minutes? You just need to have beautiful-soup installed.

• pip install bs4
• pip install requests
• pip install PTable

The basic idea of web scraping is to look for existing HTML data, using a web scraper to identify the data. Here we are looking for the HTML table-specific tags such as tr and td.

import sys
import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from prettytable import PrettyTable


def get_content(url):
    response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
    content = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")
    return content

def get_stats(content):
    soup_table = content.find('table')
    table = PrettyTable()
    table.field_names = ["State", "Confirmed", "Recovered", "Deaths"]
    for row in soup_table.findAll('tr')[1:31]:
        col = row.findAll('td')
        state = col[1].getText()
        confirmed = col[2].getText()
        recovered = col[3].getText()
        deaths = col[4].getText()
        stats = [state, confirmed, recovered, deaths]
        table.add_row(stats)
    return table

if __name__ == '__main__':
    content = get_content(url="https://www.mohfw.gov.in/")
    table = get_stats(content)
    print(table)

Thank You.