pyCOCAP

pyCOCAP is the Python interface to the common COCAP database. You can find the documentation here

Installation

Using the Package Installer for Python PIP, you can install this interface with following command

pip install pycocap

Usage

Once the package is installed it is as easy as this to get the COCAP data for example the reported case numbers for Sweden and the stringency index for the UK.

import pycocap as pyc
cases = pyc.cases('Sweden')
npi = pyc.npi('United Kingdom', 'stringency')

If you want to get multiple NPIs into one DataFrame, you can do following

npis = pyc.npis('Germany', ['school closing', 'dept relief', 'facial coverings'])

Defining the start and end dates of the timeseries can be done with Python's standard date objects

from datetime import date
deaths = pyc.death('Canada', start_date=date(2020, 5, 16), end_date=date(2021, 1, 15))

You can also use this to expand the timeseries and at the same time choose with which value to fill gaps

deaths = pyc.death('Canada', start_date=date(2019, 11, 1), fill_value=0)

Documentation

You can find the documentation here

Requirements

• pandas >= 1.4.0
• requests >= 2.27.1

Contact

You can get in touch with me via e-mail or have a look at the source code and open issues there.