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Malaysia COVID-19 Press Releases

This repository contains all press release documents related to COVID-19 obtained from Desk of DG Malaysia and their scraping scripts.

Usage

You can retrieve the latest monthly archive files through the Releases tab.

The Python scripts uses the following packages: requests, bs4 and tqdm (which can be installed through requirements.txt)

get_press.py retrieve press releases from the currprog.txt file's date up till yesterday when the script is runned. get_press_threading.py uses threading to retrieve pres releases from 2020/01/06 (which can be configured in the file) up till now.

License

The Python scripts are licensed under MIT while the press releases are all under copyright of Ministry of Health of Malaysia.