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Python
24 lines
811 B
Python
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This is to show simple COVID19 info fetching from worldometers site using lxml
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* The main motivation to use lxml in place of bs4 is that it is faster and therefore
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more convenient to use in Python web projects (e.g. Django or Flask-based)
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"""
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from collections import namedtuple
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import requests
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from lxml import html
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covid_data = namedtuple("covid_data", "cases deaths recovered")
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def covid_stats(url: str = "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/") -> covid_data:
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xpath_str = '//div[@class = "maincounter-number"]/span/text()'
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return covid_data(*html.fromstring(requests.get(url).content).xpath(xpath_str))
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fmt = """Total COVID-19 cases in the world: {}
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Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the world: {}
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Total COVID-19 patients recovered in the world: {}"""
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print(fmt.format(*covid_stats()))
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