A 404 Error

[isratahm]

Hi- thank you so much for this! (Context I'm very much a beginner at this, but I thought I'd give it a go)

And I seemed to have followed all the instructions and have gotten everything set up. But since it's my first time I must have made some sort of error because I keep getting a 404.

Here is the exact error "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -

Would really appreciate it if you could help! Thanks (:

[ExpDev07]

There could be multiple reasons for this. You have to give more information like your OS, are you trying locally or deploying somewhere. Any errors in your console? Are you trying to use the API or setting your own version (fork) up?

[isratahm]

Sorry for the lack of information! I am using MacOS Catalina, and am trying to deploy locally.

I installed python, pip, pipenv, flask and then ran the lines below:

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
But when I try to visit the app, I get the 404 error. Currently no errors in the console until I try to visit the app. I do get a notification that says that I should run zsh.

Thank you so much for taking the time out to sort this with me!

[ExpDev07]

Oh, right. There's nothing at "/" (http://localhost:5000). The available endpoints are:

• http://localhost:5000/all
• http://localhost:5000/confirmed
• http://localhost:5000/deaths
• http://localhost:5000/recovered

These can be found in the "routes" folder inside "app", also note the init.py file in this folder as well. Hope this helped!

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Please also note that this is an API, it has no visual interface. All it does is return JSON which can easily be read/parsed by machines. It's solely meant to be depended on by other applications that has use for the data, like for visualized tracking, mapping, analyzing, and/or predicting. Here's a little example I made: https://expdev07.github.io/coronavirus-tracker.

[isratahm]

You are legitimately amazing. It works! it was so simple! I'm hoping to run the data through Tableau (: