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 is retrieved programatically and re-formatted from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Data Repository, provided by JHU CCSE.

License

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

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