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ahmadawais/corona-cli
🦠 Track the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the command line. Worldwide for all countries, for one country, and the US States. Fast response time (< 100ms). https://x.com/MrAhmadAwais
A CLI tool for checking COVID-19 statistics from the command line, built during the pandemic. It hit the WorldMeter API via NovelCOVID and displayed tables, bar charts, and line charts in the terminal. It served a real purpose in 2020 when people were refreshing dashboards constantly.
The CLI interface is well-designed — country lookup, US state breakdown, sorting, and chart modes are all there without feeling bolted on. The sub-100ms response claim holds up because it's just an API call plus terminal rendering, no overhead. The bar and line chart output in terminal is genuinely useful and was non-trivial to implement well in 2020. Dockerfile included means you could run it in a container without touching your Node environment.
COVID-19 is over as an active emergency, so the data it tracks is frozen history — the NovelCOVID API it depends on has been shut down, meaning the tool returns errors on every run today. There's one test file (`test.js`) that almost certainly doesn't run anymore. No caching layer means every invocation hits the (now-dead) API. This is a museum piece, not a working tool.