NEW GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC and PROTECTED API

[SidKB]

Please check the new guideliles to access public and protected API. Link

All the application needs are registered with COWIN in order to get whitelisted.

You have to provide the DIN of your organisation.

[hemad1]

Please check the new guideliles to access public and protected API. Link

All the application needs are registered with COWIN in order to get whitelisted.

You have to provide the DIN of your organisation.

Hi From where you have got the link shared by you. Is that document is valid and shared by govt officials

[mohdaadilf]

So in order to check availability of slots using the API, one has to be registered (with an organization)? Just... Why?

[theGeekyLad]

@SidKB , a quick skim of the document doesn't mandate verification for using the public APIs? Although API abuse is allegedly going to be taken up seriously.

[hvijaycse]

@SidKB , a quick skim of the document doesn't mandate verification for using the public APIs? Although API abuse is allegedly going to be taken up seriously.

Point 1 in Process for Access to Co-WIN (page 3), it is mentioned that all entity wishing to use cowin api including public api need to register with them and refers to annexure 3, but in annexure no registration process for public api is mentioned.

This is confusing

[SidKB]

@hemad1 The file hosted in https://static.mygov.in/

@hvijaycse @theGeekyLad

Step1: As part of the registration process, interested third-party organizations need to send their details (about their organization), for use of both the Public and Protected APIs to: partners@cowin.gov.in. The following details should be mentioned through official email id, by the authorised signatory of the Organization.

[SidKB]

Today the govt official twitted this

[JnaneshPrabhu]

Can you send the link of the tweet? Will this mean, we wont have access to api if we dont register? Things seems to be lil confusing

[SidKB]

@JnaneshPrabhu Please check the latest update section

https://www.mohfw.gov.in/

[nikhilms1995]

Is there any change in the rate of calls? It used be 100 every 5 minutes and I was calling it every minute. But I'm getting code 429 since the past one hour.

[theGeekyLad]

@nikhilms1995 take a look here.

[ZentPeople]

Mail sent to partners@cowin.gov.in are undeliverable

[hemad1]

Mail sent to partners@cowin.gov.in are undeliverable

Same applies to me

[hemad1]

what can be the option of reaching out coWin team

[vishwakarmad1999]

Guys, we also opened up a thread #313 , where we wanted the @cowinapi team to listen to us. But they really didn't care at all, and after opening on spot registration for adults, now they won't even care to look at all these threads.

[Ajax-Light]

This is a scam of an "API", what kind of an API needs a User-Agent Change to even work? They better stop calling this an API and start labeling it as a Publicity Stunt. How is it better if Organizations have access to the "Restricted API"? There is no difference between that and bias against non-technical people. They ought to IMPLEMENT a better API & not just write a pretty-document about it and then ignore the devs

[ghost]

REVELING API TO PUBLIS IS ALSO OFFENCE..

[dileepps]

This is a scam of an "API", what kind of an API needs a User-Agent Change to even work? They better stop calling this an API and start labeling it as a Publicity Stunt. How is it better if Organizations have access to the "Restricted API"? There is no difference between that and bias against non-technical people. They ought to IMPLEMENT a better API & not just write a pretty-document about it and then ignore the devs

Public API from Cowin gives only cached data, so may not be very accurate. Once after login you get exact availability details. I have used Public Api and developed a site for statistical analysis. http://dreamninja.shop/cowin/ I find it very difficult to use Private API's due to OTP validation and also restrictions in number of calls.