johnnyapol / RPICovidScraper

scraper for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)'s Covid Dashboard

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RPI Covid Dashboard Scraper

Scrapes https://covid19.rpi.edu/dashboard and (optionally) posts to discord channels using webhooks. It also submits a request to the Wayback Machine / Internet Archive to perform a capture of the site when the data is updated.

Usage

python3 main.py or ./main.py

See the config.py.sample for information on configuring discord posting.

Features

  • COVID Dashboard scraping
  • Additionally tracks 2 week case data as RPI/NYS COVID "Trigger Protocols" utilize that data
  • Weekly positivity rate tracking

Dependencies

  • Python 3.6 or later
  • See requirements.txt for python dependencies

Announcements

Want the webhook in your discord server? Email rpi@johnnyapol.me and I'll add you to my instance.

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scraper for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)'s Covid Dashboard

License:MIT License


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