README.md

coronavirus-tracker (API)

This is a fast (< 200ms) and basic API for tracking development of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). It's written in python using 🍼 Flask.

Endpoints

All requests must be made to the base url: https://coronavirus-tracker-api.herokuapp.com (e.g: https://coronavirus-tracker-api.herokuapp.com/all). You can try them out in your browser to further inspect responses.

Getting confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries:

GET /all

{ "latest": { ... }, "confirmed": { ... }, "deaths": { ... }, "recovered": { ... } }

Getting just confirmed:

GET /confirmed

{ "latest": 42767, "locations": [ ... ] }

Getting just deaths:

GET /deaths

Getting just recoveries:

GET /recovered

Data

The data comes from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Data Repository, provided by JHU CCSE. It is programmatically retrieved, re-formatted and stored in the cache for one hour.

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Python 3 (with pip)
• Flask
• pipenv

Installation

• git clone https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api.git
• cd coronavirus-tracker-api
• pipenv shell
• pipenv install

Running / Development

• flask run
• Visit your app at http://localhost:5000.

Running Tests

Linting

Building

Deploying

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

ExpDev 💻 📖 🚧

bjarkimg 💬

Bost 📖

License

The data is available to the public strictly for educational and academic research purposes.