Python script for automated access to world-bank website and retreiving datasets with datapackages.
World bank is a global partnership that provides loans to countries for capital projects. It tracks global development indicators and allows free and open access to its data. There are indicators from a variety of fields such as agriculture, economy, climate change etc.
The scripts are python based and use python 3.5+. The script get.py has no dependencies outside of the standard library. It is used to download and extract a specific indicator. Credit goes to rufuspolock. In order to obtain dataset with a specific indicator url run:
python scripts/get.py indicator_url
Example:
python scripts/get.py https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS
# This will download Central government total debt as percentage of GDP dataset
The script extractFeaturedWorldBankDatasets.py obtains datasets from the world-bank featured page https://data.worldbank.org/indicator?tab=featured. It uses library BeautifulSoup in order to scrape indicator urls. To install BeautifulSoup run:
pip install bs4
To obtain all featured indicators run:
python scripts/extractFeaturedWorldBankDatasets.py