Postman COVID-19 API Resource Center

This is a set of Postman collections that might help in the COVID-19 pandemic--click on the docs link for more information about each set of APIs, as well as a Run in Postman Button and environment so you can begin making API calls using each one.

The website for this project can be found at: https://covid-19-apis.postman.com/

🚀 Quick start

Requires nvm

  git clone git@github.com:postmanlabs/covid-19-apis.git
  cd covid-19-apis
  npm run nvmrc
  nvm use
  npm install
  npm run dev

Contribution guidelines

We would love for you to contribute to the Postman COVID-19 API Resource Center! To contribute to this project, please read:

• The Code of Conduct
• The Contribution Guidelines
• The "Work To Be Done" section at the bottom of this README.

NOTE: We have added a new Markdown linter with GitHub Actions. When making a pull request, it will run against this linter. Your changed files are required to pass linting before they will be merged. More information on this can be found in the contribution guidelines.

Looking to contribute to the COVID-19 Testing Locations website? You can find that project within this repo. View README.

Build locally

This assumes you have git and npm installed.

   $ git clone https://github.com/postmanlabs/covid-19-apis.git
   $ cd covid-19-apis
   $ npm install
   $ npm install -g gatsby-cli
   $ npm run dev

COVID-19 Information

Postman Collections that make easier to pull, aggregate, and work with COVID-19 information. (New to Postman Collections? See our Introduction to Postman Collections documentation.)

• Center for Disease Control (CDC) (Docs) - Twitter and YouTube API feeds for CDC, ad their RSS feeds for pulling information.
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (Docs) - Twitter and YouTube API feeds for ECDC, ad their RSS feeds for pulling information.
• World Health Organization (WHO) (Docs) - - Twitter and YouTube API feeds for WHO, ad their RSS feeds for pulling information.

Twitter

Postman collection specifically designed to work with the Twitter API.

• COVID-19 Twitter Searches Docs - Twitter API search, with a handful of the common search terms added.
• Twitter Accounts for State Government in 50 US States Docs - State government Twitter accounts for all 50 states in the United States.
• Twitter Accounts for State Governors in 50 US States Docs - State governor Twitter accounts for all 50 states in the United States.
• Twitter Accounts for State Health Departments in 50 US States Docs - State health department Twitter accounts for all 50 states in the United States.
• County Health Departments for All 50 US States Docs - A single collection with a request for each of the 50 states, pulling a listing of name, website, address, phone, email, twitter, and facebook for all county health departments.
• Twitter Accounts for County Health Departments in all 50 US States Docs - The Twitter accounts for over 300 county health departments across 50 US States.

Covid-19 APIs

New APIs that have emerged to specifically address the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The COVID Tracking Project (Docs) - The COVID Tracking Project collects information from 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 other US territories to provide the most comprehensive testing data we can collect for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
• Covid19API (Docs) - A free API for data on the Coronavirus Access data on COVID19 through an easy API for free.
• COVID19-Tracker-REST API - (Docs) - Provides global and country level statistics on the Coronavirus.
• NovelCOVID API (Docs) - API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 or the Novel Coronavirus Strain.
• COVID-19 API (Docs) - The COVID-19 API provides information related with the case of pneumonia associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus.
• Coronavirus Data API (Docs) - Provides global stats, country stats, full timeline, and country timeline for the coronavirus.
• Health API - COVID-19 (Docs) - Global Coronavirus statistics by country and state.
• Coronavirus Smartable (Docs) - The coronavirus stats and news API offers latest and historic COVID-19 stats and news information per country or state.
• New South Wales Coronavirus Cases (Docs) - New South Wales Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
• Finnhub COVID-19 API for US cases (Docs) - US Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
• Elsevier API for generating research datasets (Docs) - Query large amount of datasets.
• Coronavirus-PH API (Docs) - Philippines Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
• COVID19-India API (Docs) - A volunteer-driven API for COVID-19 stats & patient tracing in India (Unofficial).
• Covid India API (Docs) - REST API to track Coronavirus cases in India on state level.
• COVID-19 Statistics API (Docs) - Based on public data by Johns Hopkins CSSE
• COVID19 -India- API(By Adhikansh Mittal) (Docs) - The data is used from the official website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India.[Official website]

ScrAPIs

API possibilities opened up by scraping of COVID-19 related data and making available as APIs.

• CDC Cases & Deaths (Docs) - Scraping the COVID-19 cases and deaths from CDC home page, converting to JSON, and saving within an environment.
• CDC Testing (Docs) - Scraping the number of specimens tested for SARS CoV-2 by CDC labs and U.S. public health laboratories from the CDC website.

Other APIs

Using existing 3rd party APIs to add value to the COVID-19 conversation.

• US Digital Registry API (Docs) - An API for pulling federal government agencies and social media accounts.
• News API (Docs) - An aggregate news APIs for pulling news across multiple news sources.

Data API Templates

These are some collections being developed to help make the deployment of data APIs easier using common services.

• Google Sheets to API Docs - Developing a Postman Collection that pulls data from a Google Sheet and then makes it available as an API, allowing the data to be seamlessly integrated into other websites and applications.
• Website scraping to API Docs - Developing a Postman Collection that scrapes data from an existing website and then makes it available as an API for integration into other websites and applications
• AWS Database to API Docs - Deploying APIs from Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases using Postman.
• Azure Database to API Docs - Deploying APIs from Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases using Postman.
• Google Database to API Docs - Deploying APIs from Cloud DataStore, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases using Postman.
• Heroku Database to API Docs - Deploying APIs from PostgreSQL database using Postman.

Proof of Concepts

These are some proof of concepts being worked on when it comes to COVID-19, showing what is possible with collections.

• Volunteer Opportunities (GitHub) (Website) - An API and listing page of COVID-19 testing location across all 50 states.
• COVID-19 Testing Locations (GitHub) (Website) - An API and listing page of COVID-19 testing location across all 50 states.

Existing API Standards

If you are building a COVID-19 related APIs we recommend using some existing API and schema standards.

• 211 for Health and Human Services Docs - An open schema and API standard for defining health and human service organizations, locations, and services.
• 311 for Non-Emergency Requests Docs - An open schema and API standard for defining non-emergency requests.

To submit an API to add to the list, please email us at [COVID-19@postman.com)[mailto:COVID-19@postman.com] or submit a GitHub issue on this repository.

Work To Be Done

We are tracking all submissions to be added to our list of COVID-19 resources using GitHub issues, and organizing any work to be done via the api-tasks tag -- feel free to jump in on an issue and help out. Here is a current list of tasks that need some work.