German Cities Population Scraper

This project scrapes this website for german cities and their respective estimated population. Only the estimated population of 2019-12-31 is scraped from the website.

Set-up (optional)

Run the following commands to install all the dependencies into a virtual environment

Linux/Mac Bash:

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Windows Cmd:

py -m venv venv

.\venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

After running all cells of the notebook, you'll find the saved scraped data in the cities_and_population.csv, with columns; city, status, adm (abbreviated administrative state), and population.