https://github.com/belsman/ruby-capstone
This project entails building a program that crawls daily data about COVID-19 from a website and displays it in the terminal. Built with Ruby.
https://github.com/belsman/ruby-capstone
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This project entails building a program that crawls daily data about COVID-19 from a website and displays it in the terminal. Built with Ruby.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/belsman/ruby-capstone
- Owner: belsman
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-09-28T17:00:32.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: development
- Last Pushed: 2020-10-13T20:19:03.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-19T22:59:06.153Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: microverse-projects, ruby, web-scraping
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 78.1 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# CovidWebSpider
## A CLI-Program for getting information about COVID-19 CASES
> This project about building a Web crawler Program that extracts COVID-19 data from a web page and presents it to a user via the Command-line interface. A user gets to see updates on COVID-19 data reported worldwide and on a country and region wise. [Read this to learn more about what a web crawler is.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler)
## Built With
- Ruby 2.6x
- Other tools
- [Nokogiri](https://nokogiri.org/)
- [Rubocop](https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop)
- [Terminal Table](https://github.com/tj/terminal-table)
- [Rspec](https://rspec.info/)
## Getting Started
To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.
### Prerequisites
You need Ruby runtime inorder to have this run on your Machine
### Install
1) Install Ruby if you don't have it
2) Open the Terminal
3) Run
```sh
git clone https://github.com/belsman/Ruby-Capstone.git
```
4) Run 'cd Ruby-Capstone' to enter the main directory
5) Run 'bundle install'
### Run Rspec
1) Open the terminal
2) Run ```cd Ruby-Capstone``` to enter main directory
3) Ensure there is network connnection
4) Run ```rspec```
5) '100% passing' tests mean you are ready to go
### Usage
1) Open the terminal
2) Run ```cd Ruby-Capstone``` to enter main directory
3) Run ```cd bin``` to enter file directory
4) Be sure you're connected to the internet
4) Run ```ruby main``` to start the Program
5) Here on you can see the COVID-19 data for every region and country
## Author
👤 **Bello Babakolo**
- Github: [@belsman](https://github.com/belsman)
- Twitter: [@d_belsman](https://twitter.com/d_belsman)
- Linkdin: [Bello Babakolo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bello-babakolo-b23b17145/)
## 🤝 Contributing
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the [issues page](issues/).
## Show your support
Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!
## Acknowledgments
- Microverse for showing the way for this project to happen
- The Odin Project.