Python Web Scraping: Get the number of people visiting a US government website right now

Python Web Scraping: Exercise-13 with Solution

Write a Python program to get the number of people visiting a U.S. government website right now.

Source: https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/realtime.json

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

#https://bit.ly/2lVhlLX
# via: https://analytics.usa.gov/
import requests
url = 'https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/realtime.json'
j = requests.get(url).json()
print("Number of people visiting a U.S. government website-")
print("Active Users Right Now:")
print(j['data'][0]['active_visitors'])
  
 

Sample Output:

Number of people visiting a U.S. government website-
Active Users Right Now:
103910

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