COVID-19 World Data

Want to see the number of cases of COVID-19 in the world along with other features? Try using this web scraper and you will have the most accurate knowledge of the current standing of the pandemic

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Inspiration

I have always wanted to create a web scraper that analyses data sets and with this project, I got the perfect opportunity to scrape a real website and get data on my computer!

What it does

This scraper scrapes recent COVID-19 data from a website and displays it in a formatted form.

How I built it

I built it using the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries in Python.

Challenges I ran into

At first, I couldn't get the data to be displayed properly and couldn't figure out how to do it. I also faced the challenge of adequately scraping data from a table.

Accomplishments that I am proud of

I am proud of creating my first ever web scraper!

What I learned

I learned how to make requests to a server and then receiving a response from the server. I also learned that all websites have HTML as their basic structure and with a little bit of effort, we can filter out the information we want from that site and display it on our machine. I also learned how the BeautifulSoup library of Python works.

What's next for COVID-19 World Data

I will be learning the Matplotlib, Pandas, and sns libraries of Python and then representing this data using those libraries. I am also thinking about combining my knowledge of HTML and CSS with this and create a frontend UI which will display this data. Lastly, I plan to learn some basics of data science and then combine the aspects of data science in this project.

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