Reputation: 1572
The NY Times is maintaining a GitHub repository at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data. This repository contains License, ReadMe, and two data files. The data files are us-states.csv and us-counties.csv. Both contain a time-series collection of the daily number of cases and deaths of COVID-19 by state or county.
I am trying to download the us-states.csv file. The program that I developed is:
using System;
using System.Net;
namespace NYTimes_Console
{
// ************************************************* class Program
class Program
{
// ****************************************************** Main
static void Main ( string [ ] args )
{
byte [ ] bytes;
string url =
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/" +
"covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv";
//string url =
// "https://github.com/nytimes/" +
// "covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv";
try
{
using ( WebClient client = new WebClient ( ) )
{
client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Anything");
bytes = client.DownloadData ( url );
}
Console.WriteLine ( "Download Successful" );
}
catch ( Exception ex )
{
Console.WriteLine ( "Download Failed\n{0}",
ex.Message.ToString ( ) );
}
Console.Write ( "Enter to exit");
Console.ReadLine ( );
}
} // class Program
} // namespace NYTimes_Console
When the url is "https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv", I receive the following:
Download Failed
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
When I look into the exception, I find:
InnerException = {"Received an unexpected EOF or 0 bytes from the transport stream."}
When the url is "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv", I receive the following:
Download Failed
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
and the InnerException is null.
I appear to misunderstand the GitHub repositories and access to them.
Upvotes: 2
Views: 1899
Reputation: 179
You can try to solve it like this:
string url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/master/us-states.csv";
Upvotes: 3