Covid-19

About Covid-19

This API, deprecated on October 31, 2022, provided realtime and historical data on COVID-19 confirmed cases, deaths, recovered cases, and vaccination figures, sourced from CSSEGISandData, ArcGIS opendata, and govex/COVID-19. It ran as AWS Lambda code powering covid-api.mmediagroup.fr/v1, with data on cases updated roughly once per hour and average response times between 70 and 250 ms.

The API exposed endpoints for live case data (/cases), historical data by status such as confirmed, deaths, or recovered (/history), and vaccination data (/vaccines), each queryable by country name, ISO abbreviation, or continent. No authorization was required to use it, though a rate limiter was applied to prevent excessive requests. It was intended for developers, machines, and programs building data analysis tools, dashboards, or charts based on COVID-19 statistics.

The project was licensed under GNU AGPLv3 and had been called over 40 million times before its deprecation. It was used to build a public dashboard at mmediagroup.fr/covid-19 as well as third-party tools including API parsers, Discord bots, a WordPress plugin, and a mobile app. The repository is now archived and read-only.

Key features

• Live and historical COVID-19 case data (confirmed, deaths, recovered) by country, continent, or ISO code
• Vaccine data endpoint (administered, people vaccinated, partially vaccinated)
• No authorization/API key required
• Hourly data updates with average response time of 70-250ms
• Rate limiting applied to prevent abuse

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