MICSV

MICS SURVEY: automate MICS dataset download

TODO

• Login and download
• Refine popup deflection

Install

pip3 install micsv

Required libs

pip3 install bs4
pip3 install selenium
# and install whatever libs missing on your machine...

Run

In terminal

python3

In python

from micsv import run_mics
run_mics(versions = [], overwrite = False, save_to = ".", sleep = 5)

• versions: a list of MICS versions to download, empty means download all from MICS2 to MICS6

• overwrite: overwrite exising file in save_to directory

• save_to: where to save the file, default to current working directory. Perhaps better to do

  import os
  os.chdir('path/to/where/to/save')
  run_mics()
  

• sleep: required, sometime MICS website load too slow and needed time to solve reCaptcha.

• This program will open a new browser window (Firefox in this case).

• Use your username, password, pass the reCaptcha and click login (then make no more movement in the browser please).

• The code will wait until MICS logged in successfully (5 minutes timeout) and automatically redirect to surveys site.

Example outputs

Processing page 1
Processing page 2
Processing page 3
Processing page 4
Processing page 5
Processing page 6
There are 222 file(s) detected.
The-Gambia-MICS6-Datasets.zip is already existed.
Skip downloading The-Gambia-MICS6-Datasets.zip