Tokyo 2020 Olympics Rankings API

Simple Flask or ApiGateway + Lambda powered implementation of an endpoint that returns the current Tokyo Olympic rankings and medal tallys in a JSON format.

Data source: Official Olympic Site

Usage

Endpoint currently hosted on AWS EC2 for free use: http://3.25.134.23/

Heres to the end of another Olympics. Repository has now been archived :)

Totaled 38,000+ hits to the API over the course of the Olympics.

Get the entire ranking table:

http://example.com/api/olympic/rankings

Retrieve country current standings:

Using ISO Alpha 3 Country Codes

http://example.com/api/olympic/rankings?country=AUS

Example Response

[
  {
    "country": "Japan",
    "country_alpha3": "JPN",
    "rank": 1,
    "medals": {
      "gold": 3,
      "silver": 1,
      "bronze": 0,
      "total": 4
    }
  },
  {
    "country": "United States of America",
    "country_alpha3": "USA",
    "rank": 3,
    "medals": {
      "gold": 1,
      "silver": 2,
      "bronze": 4,
      "total": 7
    }
  },
  {
    "country": "Australia",
    "country_alpha3": "AUS",
    "rank": 4,
    "medals": {
      "gold": 1,
      "silver": 1,
      "bronze": 1,
      "total": 3
    }
  },
  ...
]

Running

AWS

Requirements

• SAM CLI
• AWS Account

Deploying

1. In the aws\olympic-api folder
2. sam build
3. sam deploy

Locally with Flask

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Gunicorn

Running

1. Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Run development server with: python api.py OR
3. Run production server with: ./run.sh

Other

Branding, data, and other relevant properties.

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