Health · head-to-head
Covid-19 India vs Humanitarian Data Exchange
A volunteer-run archive of India's COVID-19 statistics — state- and district-level confirmed/recovered/deceased counts and vaccination totals — served as JSON (v4 endpoints) and CSV from data.covid19india.org. The original api.covid19india.org project and its per-request JSON routes were deprecated in August 2021 in favor of these v4/CSV endpoints; the data itself is a static historical snapshot, last modified October 2025 per the response headers, not a live daily feed. A live GET against data.covid19india.org returns no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving the stored 'unknown' cors to 'no'.
HDX is OCHA's CKAN-based catalog of over 18,000 humanitarian and public-health datasets (disease outbreaks, health-facility locations, population and displacement data) covering 250+ locations, searchable and downloadable through the standard keyless CKAN Action API (package_list, package_show, datastore_search). A live GET against data.humdata.org/api/3/action/status_show succeeds with no key, and a live Origin-header probe returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving the stored 'unknown' to 'yes'.
| Covid-19 India | Humanitarian Data Exchange | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, CSV | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Humanitarian Data Exchange supports CORS, while Covid-19 India doesn't — pick Humanitarian Data Exchange for direct browser calls.