Bahrain (COVID-19) statistics

This is a json interface for the summary of cases table in Bahrain Ministry of Health website.

You can just call the above link and it will return the data as a josn object.

Returned data

key	Description
total_check	Total Tested
existing_cases	Active Cases
stable_existing_cases	Stable cases
critical_existing_cases	Critical cases
recovered_cases	Discharged
deaths	Deaths
request_timestamp	Unix time to know when the data fetched.

Quick integration

curl --location --request GET 'https://cvapi.awal.pw/'

More example available in the example folder.

Errors

the following errors might happen:

• if there is no data cache and the server can not fetch data from the Bahrain MOH website it will return:

{"erorr": "connection error"}

• if there is a cached data and the server can not fetch data from the Bahrain MOH website, cache data will be returned.

The code

The server code created with python3 using BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML table from Ministry of Health website

following library are required to run the code locally:

• pip3 install pytz
• pip3 install requests
• pip3 install beautifulsoup4
• pip3 install html5lib

Files:

• data_source.py: will load the data and return dictionary will all the keys
• server.py: will run a local server at http://localhost:8181

Note:

• The data is being cached in cvbh.json so it will only request new data every 5 minutes.
• The function get_data can take a (True|False) value to enable data cache.

To run the server locally just run

python3 server.py

Extra

• More information about Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Volunteer in the Campaign to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19) volunteer.gov.bh
• The Coronavirus Tech Handbook coronavirustechhandbook.com