Covid-19 API

Beginner's Pick Health / No Auth Required Beginner HTTPS CORS

Free to Use

92 A+

Metadata Score Metadata estimate · not endpoint-tested

Visit Official Site Compare Alternatives

Overview

The Covid-19 API by M-Media Group provides daily case counts, deaths, and recoveries for every country in the world. It is free, open-source, and requires no API key, making it one of the easiest health APIs for beginners to use. It is a great resource for building global pandemic dashboards or learning to work with international health statistics.

Beginner Tip

Use the /v1/ endpoint to get country-level totals, and add a country name or ISO code as a path parameter to filter results for a specific country — for example, /v1/countries/US returns US-only data.

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

country name and code

population

capital city

region and subregion

flag image URL

case counts and statistics

Example Response

Illustrative shape only — we were not able to call this endpoint (it requires credentials or exposes no public sample URL), so the fields below show the kind of data this API returns rather than a recorded response.

JSON Response · Illustrative

{
  "name": "Japan",
  "capital": "Tokyo",
  "population": 125800000,
  "region": "Asia",
  "languages": [
    "Japanese"
  ],
  "flag": "https://flagcdn.com/jp.svg",
  "currencies": [
    {
      "code": "JPY",
      "name": "Japanese yen"
    }
  ]
}

Field Reference

All Top-level object containing aggregated data for the country or worldwide.

confirmed Total confirmed Covid-19 cases for the country.

deaths Total number of Covid-19 related deaths.

recovered Total number of recoveries from Covid-19.

country Full name of the country the data corresponds to.

last_updated ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was last refreshed.

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

Request

const url = "https://covid-api.mmediagroup.fr/v1/cases?country=France";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.

404 or empty response for a country The country name may not match exactly what the API expects, or the ISO code is incorrect.

✓ Try using the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. US, GB, FR) instead of the full country name for more reliable results.

Data appears outdated The API relies on publicly reported data which may lag a few days behind real-time figures.

✓ Check the last_updated field in the response to confirm data freshness before displaying it to users.

CORS error in browser Browser requests may be blocked by cross-origin policy depending on the deployment environment.

✓ Make API calls from a server-side backend or use a proxy to handle CORS when building web apps.

Metadata Score Breakdown

Estimated from metadata — endpoint not independently tested

This score is estimated from observable metadata — HTTPS support, authentication model, declared CORS, and documentation reachability — because the API requires authentication or exposes no publicly testable endpoint. The five-signal breakdown is only shown for live-tested APIs.

Metadata estimate · endpoint not independently tested

How is this scored? →