Visa Bulletin Reader

This is a simple web scraper to get the latest visa bulletin information from the travel.state.gov website. I started this with a goal of learning python and web scrapping capabilities.

Goal/Outcome

• To get the latest visa bulletin information from the travel.state.gov website.
• Currently built as a command line tool, with prompt to select the visa bulletin type and country.
• Future goal is to build a web application to display the information in a more user friendly way.

Tech Requirement Primers

• Find the section "recent_bulletins" from ul type.
• Look for tags with "Upcoming Visa Bulletin" and if not found/available, then go for "Current Visa Bulletin".
• Navigate or find the link with the format as
  • https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/{currentYear}/visa-bulletin-for-{wildcard}-{currentYear}.html

Finding the information required

• Find the table type occurrences
  • Pick first 2 and render the data