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Welcome to the UKHSA data dashboard API developer's guide. Here, you'll find concise instructions for interacting with our API and comprehensive Swagger documentation detailing endpoint information, parameters, and example responses.

Last updated on Thursday, 21 March 2024 at 02:45pm

Data structure

The full URL is constructed as follows:

GET /themes/{theme}/sub_themes/{sub_theme}/topics/{topic}/geography_types/{geography_type}/geographies/{geography}/metrics/{metric}

The following path parameters are required:

  • theme the largest overall topical subgroup of data for example infectious_disease
  • sub_theme a topical subgroup associated with the parent theme. for example respiratory
  • topic categorical subgroup associated with the selected theme and sub_theme. For example a topic of COVID-19 would only be available for a theme of infectious_disease and a sub_theme of respiratory
  • geography_type the overarching area type for the intended geography for example Nation
  • geography the selected area under the geography_type. For example England
  • metric the type of data being selected. For example COVID-19_testing_PCRcountByDay

Each intermediate part of the URL will provide a list of entities which are available for the cumulative selections.

For example, to retrieve a list of metrics which are available under the COVID-19 dataset for the overall geography of England:

GET /themes/infectious_disease/sub_themes/respiratory/topics/COVID-19/geography_types/Nation/geographies/England/metrics

If you are looking for data associated with a particular metric for a given geography, you will have to traverse the API from the beginning and make the selections by following the hierarchy to determine which entities are available for the intended selections. This is because the returned entities are relevant to the previous selections only.

For example, a selected topic of Parainfluenza will not have the same geographies available to it as COVID-19.

For more detailed information regarding each metric. Please see the metrics documentation.

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