A simple web scraping project that scrapes Worldometer for basic information on Covid-19 cases. The program is a command line Python program that accepts any number of countries as arguments, besides China for reasons that are beyond me. This program was created 2 years ago, but I recently decided to push my old projects to GitHub.
- Linux Mint 20.3 with 5.16.15 kernel
- Python 3.10.4
- Make sure that you have Python installed. I'm not sure which versions are compatible with it, but just
use
Python 3.10.4to be safe. - On the terminal, clone this repo via
git clone https://github.com/SirDood/corona-info.git - Enter the repo and setup the project via
cd corona-info && ./setup_unix.sh - Activate the newly created Python virtual environment via
source corona/bin/activate
The program is very simple to use, as shown by the syntax below:
python3 coronainfo.py country1 country2 country3 ...