FLUID-6540: Evaluate web scraping libraries and produce simple initial implementation for WeCount Covid testing centre app

Metadata

Source
FLUID-6540
Type
New Feature
Priority
Major
Status
Closed
Resolution
Migrated
Assignee
Antranig Basman
Reporter
Antranig Basman
Created
2020-08-05T10:56:37.827-0400
Updated
2024-07-18T15:49:25.860-0400
Versions
N/A
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
N/A

Description

As planned in the WeCount technical checkin notes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQxLj77GzzbwWyj5lFaIY_RzOW2yDV79qtNP5wEm30A/edit# in section for Thursday, July 30, 2020 - item 1 g (Project planning) subitem v 1, "Antranig will evaluate web scraping tools and possible locations/modalities to host data: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/assessment-centre-locations/

, we decided to apply a simple web scraping approach to harvest locations of Ontario Covid testing centres, in preparation to presenting these on an accessible map-based interface.

This task covers evaluation and selection of the tools necessary to go from data embedded in HTML into CSV, driven in a relatively manageable declarative format.

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