live-italy — Live Italy API Wrapper

Live Italy API wrapper — Fetch Italian statistics across economy, population, health, politics, society, security, work, and media. Full TypeScript support included.

Base URL: https://live-italy.vercel.app/api

• Unified data model (single statistics table)
• Language output: Italian or English via ?lang=it|en
• Pagination & sorting included

Installation

npm i live-italy

TypeScript Support

Full TypeScript types and IntelliSense are included.

// ES Module
import { getStatistics, getCategories, getMetrics, getHealth, type StatisticsResponse } from 'live-italy';

const res: StatisticsResponse = await getStatistics({ category: 'economy', lang: 'en', format: 'compact' });
console.log(res.data);

// CommonJS
const { getStatistics, getCategories, getMetrics, getHealth } = require('live-italy');

(async () => {
  const health = await getHealth();
  console.log(health.status);
})();

Getting Statistics

The getStatistics() method retrieves values directly from the statistics table, exactly as stored. It supports filtering, pagination, sorting, and output translation.

const { getStatistics } = require('live-italy');

async function main() {
  try {
    // Economy (English), compact output
    const economyCompact = await getStatistics({
      category: 'economy',
      lang: 'en',
      format: 'compact'
    });
    console.log('Economy (compact):', economyCompact.data);

    // Single metric (GDP), full output with ordering
    const gdpFull = await getStatistics({
      metric: 'gdp',
      lang: 'en',
      sort: 'updated_at',
      order: 'desc',
      limit: 50
    });
    console.log('GDP (full):', gdpFull.data);

    // Pagination example
    const page2 = await getStatistics({ offset: 100, limit: 50 });
    console.log('Page 2 size:', page2.data.length);

  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Statistics error:', err.message);
  }
}

main();

Parameters

type Lang = 'it' | 'en';
type SortField = 'category' | 'metric' | 'value' | 'updated_at' | 'last_updated';
type SortOrder = 'asc' | 'desc';
type Format = 'full' | 'compact';

• category — (optional) Filter by category (IT or EN), e.g. "economia" / "economy"
• metric — (optional) Filter by metric (IT or EN), e.g. "pil" / "gdp"
• lang — (optional) "it" | "en"; default "it" (translates output labels only)
• limit — (optional) default 100, max 1000
• offset — (optional) default 0
• sort — (optional) "category" | "metric" | "value" | "updated_at" | "last_updated" (default "updated_at")
• order — (optional) "asc" | "desc" (default "desc")
• format — (optional) "full" | "compact" (default "full")

Getting Categories

The getCategories() method returns available categories in the selected language.

const { getCategories } = require('live-italy');

(async () => {
  const it = await getCategories();            // default 'it'
  const en = await getCategories({ lang: 'en' });
  console.log('IT categories:', it.data);
  console.log('EN categories:', en.data);
})();

Parameters

• lang — (optional) "it" | "en"; default "it"

Example Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": ["population", "economy", "society", "work", "media", "politics", "security", "health"],
  "total_categories": 8,
  "filters_applied": { "language": "en" }
}

Getting Metrics

The getMetrics() method lists metrics, optionally filtered by category, and translated according to lang.

const { getMetrics } = require('live-italy');

async function list() {
  // All metrics (IT)
  const all = await getMetrics();

  // Metrics for economy (EN)
  const economy = await getMetrics({ category: 'economy', lang: 'en' });

  console.log('All (IT):', all.data.length, 'blocks');
  console.log('Economy (EN):', economy.data[0]);
}
list();

Parameters

• category — (optional) Filter by category (IT or EN)
• lang — (optional) "it" | "en"; default "it"

Example Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    { "category": "economy", "metrics": ["gdp", "public_debt", "debt_interest", "tax_evasion", "wealthy", "poor"] },
    { "category": "population", "metrics": ["total", "births_per_year", "deaths_per_year", "immigrants_per_year", "emigrants_per_year", "total_immigrants", "births_today", "deaths_today", "current_population"] }
  ],
  "total_categories": 8,
  "filters_applied": { "category": null, "language": "en" }
}

Health Check

The getHealth() method retrieves a simple API and database status snapshot.

const { getHealth } = require('live-italy');

(async () => {
  const health = await getHealth();
  console.log(health.status, health.database?.status);
})();

Example Response

{
  "status": "healthy",
  "api_version": "2.0.0",
  "timestamp": "2025-10-26T00:00:00.000Z",
  "database": {
    "status": "connected",
    "server_time": "2025-10-26T00:00:00.000Z",
    "total_statistics": 65
  },
  "endpoints": ["/api/statistics", "/api/categories", "/api/metrics", "/api/health"]
}

Error Handling

All methods throw an Error on failure. Use try/catch:

try {
  const stats = await getStatistics({ metric: 'gdp', lang: 'en' });
  console.log(stats.data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error('Request failed:', error.message);
}

Category & Metric Translations

The SDK translates output labels based on ?lang=it|en. Examples:

Categories

| Italian | English | | ----------- | ---------- | | popolazione | population | | economia | economy | | societa | society | | lavoro | work | | media | media | | politica | politics | | sicurezza | security | | salute | health |