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Iowa Caucus results scraping script
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iowa-data.sh
curl https://results.thecaucuses.org/ | sed 's|<|\n<|g' | tail -n +540 | grep -v '</li>' | sed 's|<li>||' | sed 's|<div class="wrap">|COUNTY |' | awk '$1 ~ /COUNTY/ { county=$0 } $0 ~ /<ul>/ { pline = NR } NR == (pline + 1) { printf("%s\t%s",county,$0) } pline && NR > (pline + 1) && $0 !~ /<\/ul>/ { printf("\t%s",$0) } $0 ~ /<\/ul>/ { printf("\n") ; pline=0 }' | awk 'NF > 0' | sort
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