Source with Number of Cases per Country Updated Daily

[wittmannf (Fernando Marcos Wittmann)]

• Source from World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

Each day they create a new pdf with the updated total number of cases in all contries in the world:

The problem is that it is a PDF file. Any suggestions of a scrapper for that? Or an alternative source that is also updated daily?

That would be useful for tracking each country and creating historical plots.

Thanks!

UPDATE

• Thanks to my colleagues’ suggestions, I was able to find a database where WHO is scrapped daily: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_19-covid-Confirmed.csv
• Thanks again!

UPDATE 2

Here’s a notebook exploring the dataset:

• https://github.com/WittmannF/covid-projects/blob/master/confirmed-cases-compare-country-dates/compare_countries_playground.ipynb

[wittmannf (Fernando Marcos Wittmann)]

Some other updates:

• There also this source, but it does not contain historical data: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
• I found this Colab for extracting tables from PDFs: https://colab.research.google.com/github/chezou/tabula-py/blob/master/examples/tabula_example.ipynb

[oguiza (Ignacio Oguiza)]

Hi @wittmannf,
You may be interested in this Johns Hopkins University github link https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19