This API can be used to fetch the UK's Monkeypox infection case numbers for analysis.
Under the hood I am using the BeautifulSoup package to scrape the case numbers from the UK government website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeypox-outbreak-epidemiological-overview/
FastAPI, BeautifulSoup and Uvicorn need to be installed to use the API. These can be pip installed:
pip install fastapi
pip install beautifulsoup4
Run the API by entering uvicorn monkeypox_api:app on your command prompt/terminal.
I have included a Jupyter Notebook with an example of how to get data from the API and analyse the results.
Check out the documentation for help:
https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
To build the image run the following on the command line (in the same directory as the Dockerfile):
docker build -t monkeypox-api .
Alternatively, pull the image from my Docker Hub repository using the following on the command line:
docker pull lbargie/monkeypox-api
To run the app enter the following on the command line:
docker run --rm -p 80:80 monkeypox-api
Navigate to http://localhost:80 in your web browser to view the app.
Hope you find it useful and reach out with any questions. I build this API mostly for sharpening my skills. I hadn't build an API before so I wanted to try out the FastAPI and BeautifulSoup packages.