VAERS Downloader

VAERS Downloader

This project downloads VAERS Data from https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html it depends on tensorflow to automatically trained models to solve the captcha and download data into VAERS/ directory.

Install

pip install vaers_downloader

Usage

vaers_downloader [--start=2019] [--end=2019] [--directory=/tmp]

This will create a new directory named VAERS in the currect directory where you ran the above command.

Pass a parameter or two for the start and end year as below to download data for those years only.

Default: basically will download all data from 2019 to whatever the year it is when you run it.

python -m vaers_downloader.download -s 2000
python -m vaers_downloader.download --start 1990  -e 1999 -d /tmp

Development

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

import os
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, './vaers_downloader')
from VAERSFileDownloader import updateVAERSFiles

updateVAERSFiles(
        needsUpdate = True,
        years = [2019, 2020, 2021, 2022],
        workingDirectory = os.getcwd())

Thanks to Frank Knoll for the original code... https://github.com/KnollFrank/HowBadIsMyBatch

Tests

python setup.py test

License

See LICENSE

Authors

• Frank Knoll (https://github.com/KnollFrank)
• Alex Goretoy (https://github.com/McFlat)