Covid 19 stats

This is a Scrapy project to scrape data from the Worldometers page related to the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic page at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.

This project is meant for helping to set up regular crawling purposes.

How to run spider

Activate your Virtual Env:

$ source scrapy_env/bin/activate

Enter directory:

$ cd covid19stats

You can run a spider using the scrapy crawl command, such as:

$ scrapy crawl covid19stats

If you want to save the scraped data to a file, you can pass the -o option to save data as CSV file:

$ scrapy crawl covid19 -o covid19.csv

Or save data as a JSON file:

$ scrapy crawl covid19 -o covid19.json

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