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.

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

More example available in the example folder.

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 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

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