Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: realclearpolitics
Version: 1.2.0
Summary: Simple script to scrape polling data from RealClearPolitics and output as .csv
Home-page: https://github.com/AnthonyBloomer/rcp
Author: Anthony Bloomer
Author-email: ant0@protonmail.ch
License: UNKNOWN
Description: rcp
        ===
        
        Python client for RealClearPolitics. 
        
        Install
        ^^^^^^^
        
        ::
        
            pip install realclearpolitics
        
        Usage
        ^^^^^
        
        ::
        
            usage: rcp [-h] [--output [OUTPUT]] url [url ...]
        
            positional arguments:
              url                The url of the polling data.
        
            optional arguments:
              -h, --help         show this help message and exit
              --output [OUTPUT]  The output file name.
        
        
        Examples
        ^^^^^^^^
        
        Get the US general election results.
        
        ::
        
            rcp http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html --output general.csv
        
        Download multiple polls.
        
        ::
        
            rcp http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html \
            > https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval_economy-6182.html \
            > https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval_foreign_policy-6183.html
        
        API Usage
        ^^^^^^^^^
        
        Search for Fox News poll numbers for Trump:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from rcp import get_polls, get_poll_data
            from pprint import pprint
        
            polls = get_polls(q="Trump", p="Fox")
        
            for poll in polls:
                td = get_poll_data(poll['url'])
                pprint(td)
        
        The will return a dictionary structured like this:
        
        .. code-block::
        
        
            [
                {
                    'data': [{'Biden (D)': '49.6',
                            'Date': '3/27 - 7/9',
                            'MoE': '--',
                            'Poll': 'RCP Average',
                            'Sample': '--',
                            'Spread': 'Biden +8.5',
                            'Trump (R)': '41.1'},
                    ...
                    }],
                'poll': 'https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html'
        
            ]
        
        Write a poll to CSV:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from rcp import get_polls, get_poll_data, to_csv
        
            polls = get_polls(q="Biden")[0]
            data = get_poll_data(polls['url'])
            to_csv('output.csv', data)
        
        
Keywords: politics,polls,rcp,realclearpolitics,web scraping
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
