Open sydeaka opened 3 years ago
Update: A few moments after I created the issue, subsequent refreshes of the website revealed a message saying that the system is down due to maintenance. Perhaps that explains why the file was unavailable. After a few additional moments, the file appeared to be back online and the scraper run resumed without incident.
I will leave this up so that we can work toward a solution that caches the 2018 data table and stores it in the repo for later reference.
@nkrishnaswami
When I tried to run the scraper this evening, I got an error that this 2018 US Census Excel file no longer exists. The file also fails to load when I paste the URL directly into a web browser.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/geographies/2018/all-geocodes-v2018.xlsx
Unfortunately this means we must halt daily scraper runs until this is resolved.
Do we have a local copy saved? Or, alternatively, could we modify the scraper so that it continues to pull the data while ignoring the unavailable Census file?
The error message is provided below.