API for COVID-19 India Data from official source, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (mohfw.gov.in)

The APIs also help generate historical data by persisting changes into BigQuery. There are 4 APIs provided,

• one to fetch data from historical data source (BQ)
• one for writing provided data into the data source (BQ),
• one for fetching current data from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website and
• one for ingesting the current data from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website into the data source (BQ)

Please refer to the API documentation here to understand how to use them.

Create BigQuery table to store historical data

Setup

Create BigQuery dataset and table

Prerequisites

You need to have Google Cloud SDK installed and BigQuery and Deployment Manager enabled in your Google Cloud Platform project.

Create a BQ Dataset, Table and setup schema accordingly

# Set environment variables
export PROJECT_ID=<gcp-project-id-here>
export DATASET_NAME=<bq-dataset-name-here>
export TABLE_NAME=<bq-table-name-here>
export LOCATION=<insert-bq-location-here>

export BQ_DATASET=${PROJECT_ID}:${DATASET_NAME}
export BQ_TABLE=${BQ_DATASET}.${TABLE_NAME}

# Create a BQ dataset
bq mk -d --data_location=${LOCATION} --description="COVID-19 India historical data" ${BQ_DATASET}

# Create BQ table in the dataset
bq mk -t --description="COVID-19 India historical data" ${BQ_TABLE} ./schema.json

Now you can use this table to write data from MoHFW website or other historical data

Build and Start the APIs

Run locally

Prerequisites

You need to have Node.js version 12.0 or later installed in your machine. Please follow setup instructions from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ if you do not have Node.js installed already.

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the HTTP server (starts the HTTP server on PORT 8080)
GCP_PROJECT_ID=<project-id> BQ_LOCATION=<bq-location> BQ_DATASET_ID=<bq-dataset-id> BQ_TABLE_NAME=<bq-table-name> npm start

Run in Docker

# Build Docker image
docker build -t covid19-india-bigquery:latest .

# Start container
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e GCP_PROJECT_ID=<project-id> -e BQ_LOCATION=<bq-location> -e BQ_DATASET_ID=<bq-dataset-id> -e BQ_TABLE_NAME=<bq-table-name> -d covid19-india-bigquery:latest

API Documentation

You can view the documentation at http://localhost:8080/v1/api-docs once the server is up and running.

Alternatively, you can also view the API documentation by clicking here.

Access the number of COVID-19 cases in India and across the states as of a specific date/time through this API

HTTP GET http://localhost:8080/v1/data?date=

e.g.

HTTP GET http://localhost:8080/v1/data?date=2020-04-15T12:30:00Z

Ingest data of COVID-19 cases in India and across the states as of a specific date/time into BigQuery table created above through this API

HTTP PUT http://localhost:8080/v1/data

Please see the API documentation to understand the request body required.

Fetch current data of COVID-19 cases in India and across the states directly from MoHFW website.

HTTP GET http://localhost:8080/v1/data/current

Ingest current data of COVID-19 cases in India and across the states into BigQuery table directly from MoHFW website.

HTTP PUT http://localhost:8080/v1/data/current

Please see the API documentation to understand the request body required.

Contact

For any queries, please reach out to me at [email protected] or post an issue in the repo.