/Earthquake-Web-Scraper

Simple script to make RESTful API calls to the https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ website to speed up data collection for some of my GEO hw.

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Earthquake-Web-Scraper

Simple script to make RESTful API calls to the https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ website to speed up data collection for some of my GEO hw.

Directions to Run

  • Use virtual Env to install your dependencies into
  • Packages to install (if they're not already)
    • json
    • requests
    • contextlib
    • bs4
  • source <path_to_your_env_directory>/bin/activate
  • python geo_web_scraper.py