24 lines
826 B
Python
24 lines
826 B
Python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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"""
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Project: Analyse worldwide COVID-19 Data and provide graphs etc.
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@author Patrick Müller
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"""
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import requests
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import csv
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def updateStatsFile():
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url = 'https://opendata.ecdc.europa.eu/covid19/casedistribution/csv'
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resp = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
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with open('statsfile.csv', 'w') as file:
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# Save the fetched csv String to a variable to be able to mutate it
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writeString = str(resp.content)
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# Remove the first 2 characters and the very last character because these are some crap that we dont need
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writeString = writeString[2:len(writeString)-1]
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# Replace the crappy windows newline thingy with the beautiful unix newline char
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writeString = writeString.replace('\\r\\n', '\n')
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# Write the final string to the file
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file.write(writeString)
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# Done we are
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file.close()
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