Python/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py
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Lukazlim: Replace dependency requests with httpx (#12744)
* Replace dependency `requests` with `httpx`

Fixes #12742
Signed-off-by: Lim, Lukaz Wei Hwang <lukaz.wei.hwang.lim@intel.com>

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"""
This is to show simple COVID19 info fetching from worldometers site using lxml
* The main motivation to use lxml in place of bs4 is that it is faster and therefore
more convenient to use in Python web projects (e.g. Django or Flask-based)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
# "httpx",
# "lxml",
# ]
# ///
from typing import NamedTuple
import httpx
from lxml import html
class CovidData(NamedTuple):
cases: int
deaths: int
recovered: int
def covid_stats(url: str = "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/") -> CovidData:
xpath_str = '//div[@class = "maincounter-number"]/span/text()'
return CovidData(
*html.fromstring(httpx.get(url, timeout=10).content).xpath(xpath_str)
)
fmt = """Total COVID-19 cases in the world: {}
Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the world: {}
Total COVID-19 patients recovered in the world: {}"""
print(fmt.format(*covid_stats()))