Add scraper for Hungary about li

[shaperilio]

Where's the official government site? Who is maintaining the spreadsheet?

[hyperknot]

The government website is https://koronavirus.gov.hu/

The country numbers are 100% mirrored in JHU, so I belive it makes no sense to mirror it only for the country data.

What is not in JHU are the county case numbers, but they are published on the website as an image, so it's not possible for this project to scrape it, until they start publishing it in a human readable form. That spreadsheet could be a workaround for the image numbers, but it's only reliable as the owner of the spreadsheet keeps entering the numbers.

[shaperilio]

out of curiosity, anyone try to run something like this through tesseract?

[hyperknot]

This might be quite doable with tessarct, I believe, but the project's policy so far is not to do OCR.

[shaperilio]

Where are the policies published?

[hyperknot]

Just informally on the Slack channel. There was a scraper which was trying to use tesseract and I think it's still under review.

If you feel like doing a tessarcts sample script for that image and submit a PR, it might be a good reference for other scrapers. But I cannot promise it gets merged, it depends on the team.

[jzohrab]

The "megyei" sheet doesn't have all of the states (e.g. it's missing Sopron (iso2:HU-SN)), but it has many of them. Opening a PR :-)

[jzohrab]

Opened #560, @hyperknot can you take a peek? It gets the data ok, but doesn't seem to cover all the states.

[jzohrab]

Note from the spreadsheet maintainer:

Thank you for your request. Yes, you can reuse and scrape the data. Because we have now relatively few cases we update the dataset on a weekly base, every Monday. If the new cases would grow again, we put back the daily update. I see your comment on Github regarding Sopron. Sopron is not county and not county capital, what you need for that county is Győr-Moson-Sopron column. All the Hungarian counties we have (19), + the capital Budapest. Unfortunately we don't have detailed, more accurate data for smaller administrative units since the government does not disclose them.