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[Feature Req] Worldometers Weekly Trends data source #995

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asallay opened this issue May 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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[Feature Req] Worldometers Weekly Trends data source #995

asallay opened this issue May 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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@asallay
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asallay commented May 3, 2021

There is a new table for the weekly trends data in the Worldometer Coronavirus updates page:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#countries

It would be nice to get this data in the API too, as a separate endpoint, or merged into the regular worldometers based one.
Especially since the EU's recommendation for the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is partly based a moving average of 14 days' new cases, and it could be easily calculated dynamically from this data set on a daily basis.

@asallay asallay added the enhancement New feature or request label May 3, 2021
@ebwinters
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I agree this is useful information. The work that is needed here involves:

  1. Writing a scraper that reuses some code to parse this HTML table and throw the data into Redis
  2. Writing tests
  3. Writing API docs

We won't be calculating anything further than the data that is there, since we are just a source. I don't have time to work on this right now, but let me post in Discord and see if anyone is interested (assuming you are not)

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pujux commented May 6, 2021

Ayy this is really interesting!!! I'm not gonna promise anything but if I ever get time to work on a new feature again, this will be it!

@ember-ana ember-ana added status: accepted Acknowledged and something that should be worked on status: help wanted Outside help is requested scope: api Regarding the functionality of the backend labels May 19, 2021
@pujux pujux removed status: accepted Acknowledged and something that should be worked on scope: api Regarding the functionality of the backend labels Oct 4, 2023
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