COVID-19 APIs
For Flutter Project
Rajib Biswas | 2 May 2020
The Hunch!
Well, I have been learning Flutter for the last couple of months. I have been building an app for the doctors lately meanwhile the COVID-19 pandemic began to start its death troll. Corona virus came in the month of March 2020 in Bangladesh, where I live. Before that there have been very little talk about the virus in Bangladesh. But as soon as it began to infect people, the need for finding the correct and updated information regarding the current situation of COVID-19 in Bangladesh started to grow. That’s where my Flatter knowledge and the search for an API came into play.
At first I thought of scrapping the webpage of IEDCR, but the webpage and its design is often changed and if you have any idea about web scrapping, you may know that’s not a good news for a web scrapper. So then I looked for APIs and I was overwhelmed that the smarter people have already took the heavy load of scrapping and then creating different APIs for us to use. From my personal experience for my project, I came across different APIs and got to know some of their pros and cons. Here I’ll be sharing some of the APIs that I looked into, with their pros and cons.
1. covid19api
The first one that I am going to talk about is covid19api. My first impression was well, it’s a perfect one with great documentation and almost everything that I need is here.
Pros:
- Detailed data of a country can be found from the first recorded case.
- Easy to pick up data from a certain date of interest.
- You can get worldwide data from a selected date range.
- Well document. Easy to get any project started in just a few minutes.