Coronavirus JSON API

An automated API that pulls COVID-19 statistics hourly from JHU and Worldometers, producing JSON data for easy consumption by other tools.

The Story

When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, the World Health Organization released its data. JHU held the data in a GitHub repository. However, there was no good way to access the data initially. So, I created some scripts to pull CSV data hourly from the JHU data repository and produce JSON data that could be consumed by other tools.

The JSON files were committed to a GitHub repo which allowed anyone to link their app to this data without using any 3rd party service. I used the same data API to build zobairshahadat.com/coronavirus/.

Data Sources

• Primary Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE).
• Real-time Totals: Updated every hour from Worldometers.

The project is now dormant as there are many alternative APIs available.

Links

• Source Code: GitHub Repository