COVID-19-FL

Pulls COVID-19 / Coronavirus case data from the Florida Department of Health and stores it to a MongoDb instance.

Check out a working dashboard here.

Currently publishing embedded chart data at https://www.covid19florida.info/

Installation

The following instructions are for Windows 10.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/mariuspopovici/COVID-19-FL.git

Switch directory to the COVID-19-FL folder.

cd COVID-19-FL

Prerequisites

Virtualenv

Install virtualenv:

pip install virtualenv

Create a new virtual environment:

virtualenv env

Activate the virtual environment:

.\env\Scripts\activate

Install Packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set Up MongoDB

You can download and install MongoDB locally or set up a cloud instance of MongoDB Atlas. See this video for instructions.

Also view this tutorial here.

Create a new database and two collections: florida and other_stats. Get the cluster URL and use it to create the configuration file below.

Configure

Edit sampleconfig.json and save it as config.json in the project folder.

{
  "mongodb": {
    "url": "mongodb+srv://<enter_your_mongodb_URL_here>",
    "database": "<database_name>"
  },
  "other": {
    "data_url": "http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/COVID-19/",
    "dashboard_url": "<analytics_dasboard_url>"
  },
  "smtp": {
    "user": "<your_email_address>",
    "password": "<your_email_password>",
    "email_from": "<from_email_address>",
    "email_to": "<to_email_address>"
  },
  "api": {
    "url": "https://services1.arcgis.com/CY1LXxl9zlJeBuRZ/ArcGIS/rest/services/Florida_COVID19_Case_Line_Data/FeatureServer/0/query",
    "daily_url": "https://covidtracking.com/api/states/daily"
  }
}

Alternatively, you can define these configuration settings as environment variables:

DATABASE_URL
DATABASE_NAME
DASHBOARD_URL
SMTP_USER
SMTP_PASSWORD
EMAIL_FROM
EMAIL_TO
API_URL
DAILY_STATS_API_URL

Run

Execute the following command to pull the latest data and store new cases in our MongoDB instance.

python cv-api.py

Credits

• Florida Health for collecting detailed data and making it publicly available.
• The Covid Tracking Project for providing the API for daily test counts.

API

Case line data can be obtained from here.