dhemas/api-coronavirus

Simple Coronavirus info updates API from worldometers.info/coronavirus

api-coronavirus

Simple Coronavirus info updates API from Wordlometers, created with Express, Cheerio, and Lowdb.

installation

• install required packages with your fav package manager, for npm use npm install
• run node /src/scrape_data.js to fetch data from Wordlometers and save to local lowdb database
• serve the API by issuing npm start

usage

• just send a http GET request to your server address (or just localhost) using port 8080
• response will looks like this

[
    {
        "Country,Other": "China",
        "TotalCases": "80814",
        "NewCases": "21",
        "TotalDeaths": "3177",
        "NewDeaths": "8",
        "TotalRecovered": "64113",
        "ActiveCases": "13524",
        "Serious,Critical": "4257",
        "Tot Cases/1M pop": "56.1"
    },
    ...
  ]

info

• the data from Wordlometers is updated once a day at 00.00 GMT+0, so we just need to re-fetch data once a day
• don't use the data directly without using local database to serve the API, it can flood the website if the request is high