Better automate US states data retrieval

yaph / geonamescache

geonamescache - a Python library for quick access to a subset of GeoNames data.

https://pypi.org/project/geonamescache/

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Better automate US states data retrieval #1

Open yaph opened 10 years ago

yaph commented 10 years ago

Write a Python scraper that stores data as JSON.

FlorisFok commented 1 year ago

pandas.read_html of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_territory_abbreviations. Will this do?

yaph commented 1 year ago

The data source that is currently used is fine. I guess pandas.read_html should work with this table too. The result needs to include all the fields in geonamescache/geonamesdata.py.