king county election results scraper

king county election results

this just scrapes KING5's election "Hot Races" results page forever every 60
seconds. do the whole bundle install dance then run ruby election_results.rb. if
you only care about Tacoma races or something, just specify that as an argument,
e.g. ruby election_results.rb Tacoma

election_results.rb

# frozen_string_literal: true

require 'bundler/setup'
require 'httparty'
require 'nokogiri'

def info(string)
  "\e[93m#{string}\e[0m"
end

places = ARGV.empty? ? ['Seattle', 'King County'] : ARGV

loop do
  system('clear')

  raw = HTTParty.get('http://elections.tegna-media.com/election/results/king')
  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(raw)

  items = doc.css('.racelist .race_container').map do |race|
    name = race.at_css('h2').text

    next unless places.any? { |p| name.downcase.include?(p.downcase) }

    results = race.css('.candidate_cont').map do |candidate|
      %w[candidate_name candidate_votes].map do |c|
        candidate.at_css(".#{c}").text.gsub(/\s+/, ' ').strip
      end
    end.to_h

    [name, results]
  end.compact.to_h

  longest = items.values.flat_map(&:keys).map(&:length).max

  items.each do |name, candidates|
    puts info(name)
    candidates.each do |person, votes|
      print person.ljust(longest), ' ', votes, "\n"
    end
    puts
  end

  sleep 60
end

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

ruby '2.4.1'

gem 'httparty'
gem 'nokogiri'

Gemfile.lock

GEM
  remote: https://rubygems.org/
  specs:
    httparty (0.15.6)
      multi_xml (>= 0.5.2)
    mini_portile2 (2.2.0)
    multi_xml (0.6.0)
    nokogiri (1.8.0)
      mini_portile2 (~> 2.2.0)

PLATFORMS
  ruby

DEPENDENCIES
  httparty
  nokogiri

RUBY VERSION
   ruby 2.4.1p111

BUNDLED WITH
   1.15.3