Closed tyrasd closed 4 years ago
tyrasd
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4 years ago see https://github.com/tyrasd/covid19-bz-scraper/blob/master/data/covid19_bz_municipalities.csv for code and data from 2020-03-18 to today. There would also be data available from 2020-03-13, but the format of the early spreadsheet is slightly differnt, so I can't pull it in automatically. Maybe that could be done manually, perhaps?
abaumg
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4 years ago Very interesting! I was thinking about scraping the daily press releases anyway, because the press releases include some other interesting data (e.g. number of tests, number of ICU patients etc.)
abaumg
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4 years ago Unfortunately, these spreadsheets seem to be accessible only through these daily press releases, and not through sites like http://www.provinz.bz.it/sicherheit-zivilschutz/zivilschutz/coronavirus.asp. This would make the automatic scraping a bit cumbersome thinking . But maybe there's a secondary source for this, which I don't know?
I looks like on http://www.provinz.bz.it/sicherheit-zivilschutz/zivilschutz/aktuelle-daten-zum-coronavirus.asp they have added a static link to the XLS: https://afbs.provinz.bz.it/upload/coronavirus/CoronavirusPositivi.xlsx and https://afbs.provinz.bz.it/upload/coronavirus/CoronavirusQuarantaene.xlsx
I would find it interesting to have this data also per municipality. Maybe similar to how the protezione civile publishes the data per province.
This data would be available through the daily press releases, e.g.:
@jalaska already has some python code for converting the shreadsheet to more machine-readable data format, which could potentially be used for this.
Unfortunately, these spreadsheets seem to be accessible only through these daily press releases, and not through sites like http://www.provinz.bz.it/sicherheit-zivilschutz/zivilschutz/coronavirus.asp. This would make the automatic scraping a bit cumbersome :thinking: . But maybe there's a secondary source for this, which I don't know?