coronavirus-tracker-api

Simple API for tracking the coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2), with per county data for each state

Endpoints

Requests should go to the base url: https://coronavirus-county-api.herokuapp.com/

(e.g: https://coronavirus-county-api.herokuapp.com/latest)

Getting confirmed cases and deaths

GET /latest

{
  "West Virginia":{
      "Jefferson":{
         "confirmed":1,
         "deaths":"0"
      },
      "Mercer":{
         "confirmed":1,
         "deaths":"0"
      }
  },
  ...
}

Data

The data comes from https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en. The site is scraped from, and the results cached every day.

Prerequisites

Python 3

Installation

git clone https://github.com/JKSenthil/coronavirus-county-api.git
cd coronavirus-county-api
pip install requirements.txt

Running

flask run
Note that scraping will not work because the selenium code is intended for heroku, change the configuration lines in scraper.py and add your preferred browser driver

License

Available for use by anyone, just credit the datasource and link this repository

JKSenthil/coronavirus-county-api