https://github.com/helciodev/covid-19-scraper

This app scrapes for data at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus, presents general information in tables and allows the user to search statistics about covid-19 by country.
https://github.com/helciodev/covid-19-scraper

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This app scrapes for data at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus, presents general information in tables and allows the user to search statistics about covid-19 by country.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/helciodev/covid-19-scraper
• Owner: helciodev
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-12-09T12:13:37.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: development
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-14T14:23:27.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-17T02:55:11.093Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage:
• Size: 99.6 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Ruby Capstone Project

 

# covid-19-scraper

This app scrapes for data at [world ometers info](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus), presents general information in tables and allows the user to search statistics about covid-19 by country or territory.

I chose this theme as my Ruby capstone project because is a very interesting and common matter of conversation between me and my peers and it is changing the way we live our lives all around the world.


## To install and run

- Clone the project repo from [GitHub](https://github.com/helciodev/covid-19-scraper) using `git clone https://github.com/helciodev/covid-19-scraper`

- Make sure [Ruby-lang](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/) is installed

- Make sure [Bundler](https://bundler.io/) is installed

- Install the required gems. Run `bundle install`

- Run `ruby bin/scraper.rb`

## Usage Instructions

![screenshot](assets/general-info.png)

As soon as the user starts running the app, he/she sees the information represented in the image above

The user can interact with the app by selecting a respective country from the 220 countries and territories affected by covid-19 using keyboard arrows as shown in the image below 


![screenshot](assets/user-interact.jpg)

To run tests run `rspec spec/tests.rb`

## Designed With

[![forthebadge](https://forthebadge.com/images/badges/made-with-ruby.svg)](https://forthebadge.com)

[![forthebadge](https://forthebadge.com/images/badges/uses-git.svg)](https://forthebadge.com)

- Gitflows

- Rubocop

- RSpec

- Colorize

- Nokogiri

- TTY

- VS-Code

## Contribute to this Project

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Start by:

  - Forking the project

  - Cloning the project to your local machine

  - cd into the project directory

  - Run git checkout -b your-branch-name

  - Make your contributions

  - Push your branch up to your forked repository

  - Open a Pull Request with a detailed description of the development branch of the original project for a review

## Author

😎 **Helcio Andre**

- GitHub: [@helciodev](https://github.com/helciodev)

- Twitter: [@helcio_bruno](https://twitter.com/helcio_bruno)

## Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)