🐍 Quick script to download Covid-19 data every morning

automateSitrepDownload.py

import requests
import os
import shutil
import datetime

while 1:

    #check what time it is
    curr_date = str(datetime.datetime.today())
    curr_hour = curr_date[11:13]
    curr_min = curr_date[14:16]
    curr_sec = curr_date[17:19]

    if curr_hour == '09' and curr_min == '00' and curr_sec == '00':
        #file type: xlsx
        url = 'https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-geographic-disbtribution-worldwide.xlsx'
        req = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
        open('cases.xlsx', 'wb').write(req.content)