/rona

A simple alias that runs a Python script I made to get data from my city hall official website about the COVID-19 pandemic. :mask:

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rona 😷

rona is a simple alias that runs a Python script I made to get data from my city hall official website about the COVID-19 pandemic. It'll work as long as the html structure of the website isn't changed.

rona gif

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up, but keep in mind that they were written assuming that you are on a Unix system.

Prerequisites

  • Download the rona.py and .bash_aliases files (available in this repository) and place them in the Downloads folder of your computer;

  • Make sure you have python3 and the beautifulsoup4, requests and lxml packages installed on your system.

Setting Things Up

Create a directory called rona in your home directory. You can achieve this by opening your terminal and typing:

$ cd ~/
$ mkdir rona

Then, copy the rona.py file into the newly created directory (rona):

$ cp ~/Downloads/rona.py ~/rona/

To make sure all went ok, enter the following commands:

$ cd ~/rona/
$ ls

You should see as output the rona.py file you copied earlier.

rona.py

Now the next step is to create an alias to easily run our rona.py script in the terminal. To do so, copy the .bash_aliases file to your home directory. You can do this by typing:

$ cp ~/Downloads/.bash_aliases ~/

Usage

Hooray! Now all that's left to do is to make sure everything is working properly. To do this, open your terminal and type rona. After a few seconds, you should see something like this as the output:

rona screenshot

You can also get the same result by running only the rona.py file, typing:

$ cd ~/rona/
$ python3 rona.py