Epidata Metadata

This is the documentation of the API for accessing the API Metadata (meta) for fluview, twitter, wiki, and delphi endpoints of the Delphi’s epidemiological data.

General topics not specific to any particular endpoint are discussed in the API overview. Such topics include: contributing, citing, and data licensing.

API Metadata

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The API

The base URL is: https://api.delphi.cmu.edu/epidata/meta/

See this documentation for details on specifying epiweeks, dates, and lists.

Parameters

None.

Response

Field	Description	Type
`result`	result code: 1 = success, 2 = too many results, -2 = no results	integer
`epidata`	list of results	array of objects
…	…	…
`message`	`success` or error message	string

Example URLs

https://api.delphi.cmu.edu/epidata/meta/

{
  "result": 1,
  "epidata": [
    {
      "fluview": [
        {
          "latest_update": "2020-04-10",
          "latest_issue": 202014,
          "table_rows": 945920
        }
      ],
      "twitter": [
        {
          "latest_update": "2020-04-11",
          "num_states": 41,
          "table_rows": 132712
        }
      ],
      "wiki": [
        {
          "latest_update": "2020-04-12 07:00:00",
          "table_rows": 131585
        }
      ],
      "delphi": [
        {
          "system": "af",
          "first_week": 201541,
          "last_week": 201619,
          "num_weeks": 31
        },
        {
          "system": "eb",
          "first_week": 201441,
          "last_week": 201519,
          "num_weeks": 32
        },
        {
          "system": "ec",
          "first_week": 201441,
          "last_week": 202013,
          "num_weeks": 171
        },
        {
          "system": "sp",
          "first_week": 201441,
          "last_week": 201519,
          "num_weeks": 32
        },
        {
          "system": "st",
          "first_week": 201542,
          "last_week": 201949,
          "num_weeks": 123
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "message": "success"
}