Coronavirus data scraping

This is a simple script that scrapes the coronavirus numbers from worldofmeters with BeautifulSoup4 and dumps it to a json file.

Installation

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python coronascrape.py

Further information

• Run the coronscrapy.py script every 10 minutes or so in a cronjob.
• Setup a webserver with webroot html if you desire.

Example

• https://covid19.hamels.be
• link to the json file: https://covid19.hamels.be/covid19.json