Web Scraping Microservices API built with Node.js, Express and jQuery

Live Demo

View live demo of API response here:

https://covidapi.onrender.com/totalcases

https://covidapi.onrender.com/recovered

https://covidapi.onrender.com/cases

Data Source

COVID-19 pandemic wikipedia webpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic

Setup

Run npm install to install dependencies

Run npm start to start the server

Make GET request to the following API endpoints to see the response

Total Confirmed Cases Worldwide

API endpoint: http://localhost:3000/totalcases

example response:

{
    "confirmedCases": "6075786"
}

Total Recovered Cases World wide

API endpoint: http://localhost:3000/recovered

example response:

{
    "recoveredCases": "2571797"
}

Confirmed Cases by Country

API endpoint: http://localhost:3000/cases

example response:

[
    {
        "country": "United States",
        "cases": "1806332"
    },
    {
        "country": "Brazil",
        "cases": "499966"
    },
    {
        "country": "Russia",
        "cases": "405843"
    },
]