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Code repository: coronavirus-json-api

The story

When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, the World Health Organization released it’s data. JHU hold the data in a github repository. However, there were no good way to access the data initially. So, I created some scripts to pull csv data hourly from JHU data repository, and produce json data that could be consumed by other tools.

The JSON files were commited in a github repo which would allow anyone to link their app to these data without using any 3RD party service.

I used the same data API to build coronavirusdashboard.live which was recently replaced and moved to zobairshahadat.com/coronavirus/

Purpose:

The project was used to serve ase API backend for https://zmsp.github.io/coronavirus During the start of COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to create a site that services as a window to covid statistics.

Data sources

The data is updated from Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering JHU CSSE repository and hosted on https://github.com/zmsp/coronavirus-json-api/ JHU CSSE updates the data about twice daily.

Additionally, the total counts are updated every hour from https://www.worldometers.info/

The project is now dormant a there are many alternative APIs avaiable.