Google Flu Trends flu search volume — pub_gft • epidatr

API docs: https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/gft.html

Obtains estimates of inluenza activity based on volume of certain search queries from Google.

Usage

pub_gft(locations, epiweeks = "*", fetch_args = fetch_args_list())

Arguments

locations: character. Locations to fetch.
epiweeks: timeset Epiweeks to fetch. Defaults to all ("*") dates.
fetch_args: fetch_args. Additional arguments to pass to fetch().

Value

tibble::tibble

Details

Google has discontinued Flu Trends and this is now a static endpoint. Possibile input for locations can be found in https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/blob/main/labels/regions.txt, https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/blob/main/labels/states.txt, and https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/blob/main/labels/cities.txt.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
pub_gft(locations = "hhs1", epiweeks = epirange(201201, 202001))
}