covid-19-analysis/DataFetcher.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Project: Analyse worldwide COVID-19 Data and provide graphs etc.

@author Patrick Müller
"""
import requests
import csv

def updateStatsFile():
	url = 'https://opendata.ecdc.europa.eu/covid19/casedistribution/csv'
	resp = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
	with open('statsfile.csv', 'w') as file:
		# Save the fetched csv String to a variable to be able to mutate it
		writeString = str(resp.content)
		dateRepIndex = writeString.index('dateRep')
		# Remove the first 2 characters and the very last character because these are some crap that we dont need
		writeString = writeString[dateRepIndex:len(writeString)-1]
		# Replace the crappy windows newline thingy with the beautiful unix newline char
		writeString = writeString.replace('\\r\\n', '\n')
		# Write the final string to the file
		file.write(writeString)
		# Done we are
		file.close()
		print('DEBUG: Updated Stats File')