On 2016-02-19 10:46, noydb wrote:
> I want to be able to download this CSV file and save to disk
> >> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv
from urllib.request import urlopen
data =
urlopen("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv";)
> This (interacting with the web using python) is very new to me, so
> can anyone provide direction on how to go about doing this? Is it
> involved? Is there a good example out there that can illustrate
> the needs/mechanics/how-to?
You can then either iterate over the incoming data and write it to a
file:
with open('output.csv', 'wb') as output:
output.writelines(data)
or you can process it as it comes in:
import csv
r = csv.DictReader(line.decode('utf8') for line in data)
for i, row in enumerate(r):
do_something(row)
if i == 0: print(repr(r))
{'rms': '', 'gap': '158.52', 'latitude': '38.3625', 'magType': 'ml',
'net': 'nn', 'horizontalError': '', 'status': 'automatic', 'depth':
'3', 'nst': '5', 'magError': '', 'magSource': 'nn', 'depthError': '',
'longitude': '-118.4693', 'updated': '2016-02-20T00:17:41.069Z',
'mag': '1.1', 'type': 'earthquake', 'time':
'2016-02-20T00:15:24.120Z', 'id': 'nn00532282', 'locationSource':
'nn', 'dmin': '0.128', 'magNst': '', 'place': '22km SE of Hawthorne,
Nevada'}
-tkc
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