This application is using the HDX and the Healthsites Global Mappging Project APIs to automate the process of country data extraction from healthsites and sharing to HDX platform. See :

• HDX Python Library API documentation
• [Healthsites API documentation](healthsites API documentation https://github.com/healthsites/healthsites/wiki/API)

for more information.

git clone https://github.com/ndongamadu/hdx-scraper-healthsite.git

Open a terminal and run the install script. This will install a virtualenv and install all the requirements.

cd hdx-scraper-healthsite
python install.py

Get into HDX website and save your API in your home directory. The full process for getting the key is well documented in the HDX API repository : Usage -> Getting started -> Obtaining your API Key.

Open the healhsite2.py file. In def main() function, edit countries variable by adding the country name and its ISO3 code using this format :

countries = {
'Country': "ISO3"
}

If adding many countries :

countries = {
'Country1': "ISO3",
'Country2': "ISO3",
'Country3': "ISO3"}

Note : List of african countries and their ISO3 code is included the folder. See africa-countries-ios3.csv file.

Open a terminal and execute the following command

python execute.py

The generated datasets are available in hdx from this link : https://data.humdata.org/organization/healthsites