RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!

[nzuhrah]

Hi, when I try to retrieve daily chart's data from every country with this code, it appear this kind of error. Can you guide me how to fix it?

data = covid_daily.data(country='malaysia', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)

print(data.head())

Output:

RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 data = covid_daily.data(country='malaysia', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
2
3 print(data.head())

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\covid_daily\covid.py in data(country, chart, as_json)
166
167 if not flag:
--> 168 raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
169
170 return data

RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!

[alvarobartt]

Hi @nzuhrah I've checked the data and it looks available in worldometers.info/coronavirus, I'll test this tomorrow including some flags so as to spot the error and hopefully fix it! 👍🏻

[OmkarShivaprasad]

Hi did you find a solution to this?

[alvarobartt]

Hi @OmkarShivaprasad I did some fixes some time ago, but I'm not sure whether this is currently fixed or not, can you please check? Thank you! 😄

BTW if this error still persists, please let me know (share the error code too) so that I can find a way to solve this!

[proydu]

Still same error:

RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!

[kmu2000]

I got the same error too.

[BaoshanPang]

I am geting the same error too for most country except for 'china':

data = covid_daily.data(country='india', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\bpang\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\covid_daily\covid.py", line 168, in data
raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!
data = covid_daily.data(country='spain', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\bpang\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\covid_daily\covid.py", line 168, in data
raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!
>>> data = covid_daily.data(country='china', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
data = covid_daily.data(country='cuba', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\bpang\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\covid_daily\covid.py", line 168, in data
raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!
data = covid_daily.data(country='us', chart='total-currently-infected-linear', as_json=False)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\bpang\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\covid_daily\covid.py", line 168, in data
raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!

[BaoshanPang]

I think I find the problem:
the chart "total-currently-infected-linear" is not existed any more for many countries except for 'china'.
We need to use a different chart name in order to get the data. To get what charts are avaible, I use the wget command:
_$ wget "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/"
--2021-05-07 21:08:12-- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Resolving www.worldometers.info (www.worldometers.info)... 172.67.70.249, 104.26.4.2, 104.26.5.2, ...
Connecting to www.worldometers.info (www.worldometers.info)|172.67.70.249|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: 'index.html'

 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  879K
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1.40M

100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2.61M
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4.21M
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4.18M
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3.09M
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4.24M
350K .......... .......... ........ 2.99M=0.2s

2021-05-07 21:08:13 (2.17 MB/s) - 'index.html' saved [387305]_

Then search "Highcharts.chart" in the download file index.html:

$ grep Highcharts.chart index.html
Highcharts.chart('deaths-cured-outcome-small', {
Highcharts.chart('coronavirus-cases-linear', {
Highcharts.chart('coronavirus-cases-log', {
Highcharts.chart('graph-cases-daily', {
Highcharts.chart('graph-active-cases-total', {
Highcharts.chart('coronavirus-deaths-linear', {
Highcharts.chart('coronavirus-deaths-log', {
Highcharts.chart('graph-deaths-daily', {

[esinkei]

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RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last)

in ()
1 for idx, available_chart in enumerate(AVAILABLE_CHARTS):
----> 2 data = covid_daily.data(country='spain', chart=available_chart, as_json=False)
3 data.plot(ax=axs[pairs[idx]], title=available_chart)
4
5 fig.tight_layout()

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/covid_daily/covid.py in data(country, chart, as_json)
166
167 if not flag:
--> 168 raise RuntimeError("Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!")
169
170 return data

RuntimeError: Information could not be retrieved since it is not available at Worldometers.info!