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The first and second shot data (for medical professionals; seniors just started today and therefore all only have one shot) have been published in the Prime Minister Office's twitter: https://twitter.com/kantei_vaccine/status/1381586088712564743
Thank you @awh-tokyo! And yes, please let us know if you come across a better/more detailed format at some point :)
@edomt Hi, FYI the prime minister office has just published the excel data; https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/kansensho/vaccine.html
医療従事者等 (https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/IRYO-vaccination_data.xlsx) = vaccinations to the medical professionals 高齢者 (https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/KOREI-vaccination_data.xlsx) = vaccinations to the elderly
The sum of both numbers should be the whole vaccination for a certain day.
@AnnaNishino
Good find; I've been updating their webpage and twitter feed since last night looking for it.
I'm not convinced that the data is correct for the elderly vaccinations yet. The data listed for Tuesday says 1,179 shots and Monday says 1,563 shots, but on Monday night they published 1,179 as Monday's figure.
EDIT: I was wrong, their number that they published on Monday was 1,139. I guess they're correcting the data as they go along.
Thank you for pointing out!
I have talked to the prime minister office over the phone, and they said that those excel files are subject to change since the latest numbers are as of 5PM (the medical professionals) or 7PM (the elderly) at a certain day, so if the data comes after that time, it should be counted as the vaccinations for the date inoculated, NOT the date submitted.
I hope they mention this note somewhere in the webpage as well.
Thank you both very much! We've now migrated our data collection to the two Excel files.
The automated collection has been retrieving data from https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/vaccine_sesshujisseki.html but there is currently a note:
For vaccination counts etc. after April 12th, view the Prime Minister Office's home page
The Prime Minister Office's home page for vaccinations is located at https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/headline/kansensho/vaccine.html
So far, they don't seem to be publishing any data besides a daily total count of injections, without specifying per-day or whether they're first or second doses.
I don't know if this is enough data to automate anymore, but if so, the text to scrape is at the top of the page:
これまでのワクチン総接種回数(令和3年4月12日)
医療従事者等:1,689,453回 高齢者:1,139回
令和3年 is the current year (next year will be 令和4年), and 4月12日 is the date (April 12 in this case). The numbers given are the total injections to date, both first and second shots. The first number is for medical professionals; the second is for elderly. That is, the correct total vaccinations to date is the sum of both numbers.
I hope they will publish the data in an easier-to-use way soon.