Grab the NGO coordinates from bettermap.org

grab_ngos.py

import requests
import pandas
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

def _grab_data():
    url = 'http://www.bettermap.org/json'
    x = requests.get(url)
    return x.json()['features']

def _process_entry(entry):
    htmltag = entry['properties']['name']
    soup = BeautifulSoup(htmltag)
    lon,lat = map(float, entry['geometry']['coordinates'])
    return {'ngo': soup.a.text, 'latitude': lat, 'longitude': lon}
    
def saveNGOs(filename="ngo.csv"):
    raw = _grab_data()
    dicts = map(_process_entry, raw)
    df = pandas.DataFrame(dicts)
    df.to_csv(filename)
    return df