Coronavirus API

A dumb rest api for coronavirus status. It gathers info from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and stores it in database.

Getting Started

Project built on Node.js v13.10.1, information stored in mongodb

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• MongoDB

Installing

Clone repo

git clone url

Install dependencies

npm install

Set enviornment variables or create .env file with following:

MONGODB=mongodb://localhost/coronavirusa
PORT=3000
HOST=localhost
CRON=0 0 * * * *

Start in development mode

npm run dev

Start project

npm run start

Usage

Get all information

$ curl http://localhost:3000/ | jq

Response should look like this:

{
  "totals": {
    "cases": 107516,
    "deaths": 3658,
    "recovered": 60920,
    "activeCases": 42938,
    "closedCases": 64578
  },
  "countries": [
    {
      "country": "China",
      "totalCases": 80701,
      "newCases": 50,
      "totalDeaths": 3098,
      "newDeaths": 28,
      "totalRecovered": 57331,
      "activeCases": 20272,
      "criticalCases": 20272,
      "srcUpdate": "2020-03-08T12:59:00.000Z",
      "dbUpdated": "2020-03-08T13:00:16.469Z"
    },
    {
      ...
    }
  ],
  "_id": "5e64ec6026e7a77feef6c3b1",
  "srcUpdated": "2020-03-08T12:59:00.000Z",
  "dbUpdated": "2020-03-08T13:00:16.469Z",
  "__v": 0

You can also filter by country

curl http://localhost:3000/italy | jq

Response:

{
  "country": "Italy",
  "totalCases": 5883,
  "newCases": 0,
  "totalDeaths": 233,
  "newDeaths": 0,
  "totalRecovered": 589,
  "activeCases": 5061,
  "criticalCases": 5061,
  "srcUpdate": "2020-03-08T12:59:00.000Z",
  "dbUpdated": "2020-03-08T13:00:16.469Z"
}

Built With

• Express JS
• Mongoose
• Axios
• Cheerio

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details