#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 # In[4]: import requests import pandas as pd from io import BytesIO from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # URL of the website to scrape url = "https://www.ireland.ie/en/india/newdelhi/services/visas/processing-times-and-decisions/" # Headers to mimic a browser request headers = { "User-Agent": ( "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 " "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" ) } # Send an HTTP GET request to the website response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) # Check if the request was successful if response.status_code == 200: soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser') # Find all anchor tags links = soup.find_all('a') # Search for the link that contains the specific text file_url = None for link in links: link_text = link.get_text(strip=True) if "Visa decisions made from 1 January 2024 to" in link_text: file_url = link.get('href') break if file_url: # Make the link absolute if it's relative if not file_url.startswith('http'): file_url = requests.compat.urljoin(url, file_url) ###print(f"Found link: {file_url}") # Download the file into memory file_response = requests.get(file_url, headers=headers) if file_response.status_code == 200: ods_file = BytesIO(file_response.content) # Read the .ods file into a DataFrame try: df = pd.read_excel(ods_file, engine='odf') # Step 1: Drop unnecessary columns ("Unnamed: 0" and "Unnamed: 1") df = df.drop(columns=["Unnamed: 0", "Unnamed: 1"]) # Step 2: Find the index where data starts with "Application Number" header_row_index = df[df['Unnamed: 2'] == 'Application Number'].index[0] # Step 3: Set new headers and skip the rows before actual data df.columns = df.iloc[header_row_index] df = df[header_row_index + 1:].reset_index(drop=True) # Step 4: Rename the columns for clarity df.columns = ['Application Number', 'Decision'] # Step 5: Drop any rows with all NaN values (optional cleanup) df = df.dropna(how='all') # Remove the download and display part except Exception as e: print("Error reading the .ods file:", e) else: print("Failed to download the file. Status code:", file_response.status_code) else: print("The specified link was not found.") else: print(f"Failed to retrieve the webpage. Status code: {response.status_code}") # In[ ]: # In[ ]: