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disease-sh / API

API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
https://disease.sh
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Data source #3

Closed adamwojt closed 4 years ago

adamwojt commented 4 years ago

What's is your data source ? Do you store data and could you share it ? Are you scraping some website to get it ?

ericzlmd commented 4 years ago

What's is your data source ? Do you store data and could you share it ? Are you scraping some website to get it ?

He's using GHO's datat API, which is WHO's

https://www.programmableweb.com/api/world-health-organization-gho-odata-rest-api-v10

gabrielcosi commented 4 years ago

What is the endpoint to get covid-19 stats? That api is huge

javieraviles commented 4 years ago

The api is scraping this website each 10 minutes: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

ghost commented 4 years ago

The api is scraping this website each 10 minutes: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

This is the correct answer I'm closing this issue for now!

ghost commented 4 years ago

@EliteDaMyth I just would like to ask if it is legal to scrap the data from this website? I see that they have licensing system with payment. I just would like to know.