CoronaVirus Scrapper

• This is a simple project to scrap corona-virus data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.

• Data is being updated by using go-cron.

Prerequisites

• Golang 1.12.17 or newer with Go Module Support

Features

Authentication

• Using Token Based Authentication by generating a random token for user when they register and storing it in the database.

• Comparing header token with token in database to verify authentication.

Rate Limit

• Using rate limit to limit the amount of API calls for different users. For example, free users get 50 requests/day and premium users get 100 requests/day .

Routes

• /api/coronavirus: summary of all countries' cases .

• /api/coronavirus/[continent]: summary of all countries' cases in this [continent] .

• /api/coronavirus/[country]: a summary of [country] cases .

• /api/countries: all countries and their ISO codes .

• /api/continents: all continents and their codes .

Setup The Project

Clone The Project

git clone https://github.com/ajaydy/corona.git

Edit Config file

Copy example.config.toml to .config.toml

cp example.config.toml .config.toml

Fill in your database, cron and app details.

Run The Project

go run main.go