NYT Vote Scraper

Scrapes the NYT Votes Remaining Page JSON and commits it back to this repo. The goal is to be able to view history and diffs of results.json.

Outputted files

• https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html
• https://github.com/alex/nyt-2020-election-scraper/blob/master/battleground-state-changes.txt
• https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.csv
• https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.xml

Inspired By

Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

Development

Dependencies

• Python 3 is required

pip install -r requirements.txt

Contributions are welcome, but please make sure you read and fill out the the pull request template when submitting your changes. We would also appreciate it if you could read the short contributing guide.

Please do not modify any of the static files (html, csv, txt, or xml). These files are dynamically generated.

To Support The Creators

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