thejeshgn / kmcdeathrecords

KMDC Death Records

Source: Kolkata Municipal Corporation - Death Registration Details

Code is under GNU GPL V3.

Credit

You can credit Thejesh GN - https://thejeshgn.com

Setup

Install dependencies in requirements.txt

pip3 install -R requirements.txt

Scrape

1. Edit scrape.py and update the END_DATE END_DATE = date(2021, 5, 15)
2. Run python scrape.py
3. It will download only the missing days
4. It will add the raw data to raw folder

Process

1. Delete the current sqlite file inside data folder
2. Run python process.py
3. It will generate the sqlite file with a single table called death_records
4. You can explore it using any clients. My preference is sqlitebrowser

Data

Currently I have the processed data for

START_DATE = date(2010, 1, 1)
END_DATE = date(2021, 5, 15)

inside data folder. It also has zipped csv for convience.