Download Nasa Global 24h fire alerts and process file line by line

fire_updates.py

import os
import urllib
import csv


url = 'https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/text/Global_24h.csv'
file_path = 'path_where_you_what_to_save_file'

urllib.urlretrieve(url, file_path)

with open(file_path, 'rb') as csvfile:
    fires = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
    i = 0
    for row in fires:
        #you might want to skip the first line
        if i = 0:
            i += 1
        elif:
            #you can access every attribute in a row by index
            lat = row[0]
            lon = row[1]
            ...
            update_cartodb(lat,lon,...)
csvfile.close()
os.remove(file_path)