coronavirus-tracker (API)

This is a fast (< 200ms) and basic API for tracking development of the new coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2). It's written in python using 🍼 Flask.

Endpoints

All requests must be made to the base url: https://coronavirus-tracker-api.herokuapp.com/v2/ (e.g: https://coronavirus-tracker-api.herokuapp.com/v2/locations). You can try them out in your browser to further inspect responses.

Picking data source

We provide multiple data-sources you can pick from, simply add the query paramater ?source=your_source_of_choice to your requests. JHU will be used as a default if you don't provide one.

Available sources:

jhu - https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 - Data repository operated by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE).
... more to come later.

Getting latest amount of total confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries.

GET /v2/latest

{
  "latest": {
    "confirmed": 197146,
    "deaths": 7905,
    "recovered": 80840
  }
}

Getting all locations.

GET /v2/locations

{
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "country": "Thailand",
      "country_code": "TH",
      "province": "",
      "last_updated": "2020-03-21T06:59:11.315422Z",
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": "15",
        "longitude": "101"
      },
      "latest": {
        "confirmed": 177,
        "deaths": 1,
        "recovered": 41
      }
    },
    {
      "id": 39,
      "country": "Norway",
      "country_code": "NO",
      "province": "",
      "last_updated": "2020-03-21T06:59:11.315422Z",
      "coordinates": {
        "latitude": "60.472",
        "longitude": "8.4689"
      },
      "latest": {
        "confirmed": 1463,
        "deaths": 3,
        "recovered": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Additionally, you can also filter by country (alpha-2 country_code).

GET /v2/locations?country_code=US

Include timelines.

GET /v2/locations?timelines=1

Getting a specific location (includes timelines by default).

GET /v2/locations/:id

{
  "location": {
    "id": 39,
    "country": "Norway",
    "country_code": "NO",
    "province": "",
    "last_updated": "2020-03-21T06:59:11.315422Z",
    "coordinates": { },
    "latest": { },
    "timelines": {
      "confirmed": {
        "latest": 1463,
        "timeline": {
          "2020-03-16T00:00:00Z": 1333,
          "2020-03-17T00:00:00Z": 1463
        }
      },
      "deaths": { },
      "recovered": { }
    }
  }
}

Exclude timelines.

GET /v2/locations?timelines=0

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.