COVID-19 US Data REST API

A REST API for the US COVID-19 data gathered by nytimes.

Docker Image Details

hub.docker.com/repository/docker/desholmes/covid-19-us-api.

• Registry: desholmes
• Repository name: covid-19-us-api
• Current version: 1.0.5

Using the API

A hosted version version of the API can be found at covid-19-us-api.dholmes.co.uk.

The following starts a local server running on port 8000:

docker run -it -p 8000:8000 desholmes/covid-19-us-api:1.0.0

URL	Description	Hosted Link	Local Link
/us/counties/	Returns county-level data: date, county, state, fips, cases, deaths	hosted	local
/us/counties/?date=2020-03-20	Returns county-level data for a date: date, county, state, fips, cases, deaths	hosted	local
/us/states/	Returns state-level data: date, county, state, fips, cases, deaths	hosted	local
/us/states/?date=2020-03-20	Returns state-level data for a date: date, county, state, fips, cases, deaths	hosted	local

Getting Started (Development)

Prerequisites

1. Installation of Docker CE
2. Installation of git SCM
3. Knowledge of Python 3.7.3
4. Knowledge of Django 3.0.4
5. Knowledge of Django REST framework 3.11.0

Development takes place inside a docker container to:

1. Remove the need for a local virtual environment
2. Ensure the DEV environment is a close as possible to PROD

Set up

1. Complete the 'Getting Started > Prerequisites' section
2. By default the app is configure for local development. Running make build-cold stand your local env up from scratch (not to be used for PROD)
3. Open 0.0.0.0:8000 in a browser to see the app running
4. Changing files in covid_19_us will cause the app to reload
5. Press CTL+c to stop the docker container

If you want to configure the application step-by-step follow the steps below:

1. Run make setup: To create the .env file from .env-dist
2. Configure the following in .env:
   1. PORT: The port the Django server will be exposed on (default 8000)
   2. DEBUG: Enable the app to run in development mode using python3 manage.py runserver, with live reloading of files changed in covid_19_us (default 1)
   3. DEV: Enables DEBUG for the app (default 1)
   4. QA: Enables flake8 to be run against code on initial run, not live reload (default 1)
   5. SECRET_KEY: Secret key for the app, replace add_me with a random string (default 'add_me')
3. Run make build: To create the docker image
4. Run make run: To run the docker image as a container
5. Open 0.0.0.0:8000 in a browser to see the app running
6. The 2 above commands can be run using make build-run
7. Press CTL+c to stop the docker container

Credits

• nytimes for providing the data
• Xavier Ordoquy (xordoquy) and his demo code for creating a non-model Django REST API
• Valentino Gagliardi's middleware blog post

Version History

1. 1.0.5: Hotfix to handle query string for GA tracking
2. 1.0.4: Adding GA tracking to monitor hosted API usage
3. 1.0.3: Adding GNU GENERAL PUBLIC V3 LICENSE and CORS Allow all headers
4. 1.0.2: Added caching for response dataframes
5. 1.0.1: Added a hosted public version of the API
6. 1.0.0: Base repo with DBless Django app