Python/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py at 9160f579fd154c794f1282e99ffa63439fde1428 · TheAlgorithms/Python · GitHub

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"""
This is to show simple COVID19 info fetching from worldometers archive site using lxml
* The main motivation to use lxml in place of bs4 is that it is faster and therefore
more convenient to use in Python web projects (e.g. Django or Flask-based)
"""

# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
#     "httpx",
#     "lxml",
# ]
# ///

from typing import NamedTuple

import httpx
from lxml import html


class CovidData(NamedTuple):
    cases: str
    deaths: str
    recovered: str


def covid_stats(
    url: str = "https://web.archive.org/web/20250825095350/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/",
) -> CovidData:
    xpath_str = '//div[@class = "maincounter-number"]/span/text()'
    return CovidData(
        *html.fromstring(httpx.get(url, timeout=10).content).xpath(xpath_str)
    )


fmt = """Total COVID-19 cases in the world: {}
Total deaths due to COVID-19 in the world: {}
Total COVID-19 patients recovered in the world: {}"""
print(fmt.format(*covid_stats()))