Web scraper

This is a project built to scrape reported Cases and Deaths of COVID-19 by Country or Territory from (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). The scraper gets the information from the website and displays the data in JSON format and also saves the data into a CSV file. Below is part of the data scrape from the site.

FrederickMih
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Ruby

Web Scraper Project

This is a project built to scrape reported Cases and Deaths of COVID-19 by Country or Territory from (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/).
The scraper gets the information from the website and displays the data in JSON format and also saves the data into a csv file. Below is part of the data scrape from the site.

Scraped results screenshot

screenshot

World covid-19 Data

#Index
#Country
#total_cases
#total_deaths
#total_recovered
#total_tests

Built With

Ruby

  • Gems used:
  • nokogiri
  • HTTParty

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps in your terminal.

  • You need to have ruby installed on your machine
  • run command git clone https://github.com/FrederickMih/web-scraper to clone the repository
  • go into the folder containing the project by typing cd web-scraper
  • run command bundle install
  • go into the folder containing the project by typing cd bin
  • type in your terminal the command ruby main.rb

Run tests

  • Unit test (Rspec):

  • go into the folder containing the project by typing cd web-scraper

  • type in your terminal the command rspec

Author

👤 Mih Frederick Mih

🤝 Contributing

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📝 License

Copyright 2020 Mih Frederick Ngum

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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