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WOOF! Sometimes it doesn’t load the MS data because the website I’m scraping changes their tables. I get the data per request...never got around to scraping it and saving it from a DB, which would be more reliable even if they changed their HTML markup


I made an Android app to do the same at the beginning of Lockdown for my country, South Africa. Was quite a cathartic experience. Just being an observer helped me to deal with the situation...

Then the guys doing the data moved their table and broke my app. Lucky I found a more reliable source. The app still works, I check it every morning. Anyway I found an international api here: https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api - even started making a world map but moved on to other things. Code is on my site - https://www.circusscientist.com/parsing-online-corona-virus-...


Cool! We had the same idea with the NYTimes data :)




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