coronavirus-bot-tracker's Introduction

CoronaVirus Bot for India (Covid19)

YouTube Demo

Check the demo for how this works on YouTube here.

Features

Sit back and relax - the coronavirus updates will come to you.
Get Slack notifications (picture below)
- New Corona Virus cases happening in India
- How many Indian nationals have Corona Virus per State?
- How many deaths happened per State?
- The new States entering the corona zone like Chattisgarh
Too many updates? Subscribe only to the states that you want.
Its reliable - the source of data is official Government site (here)
Its ROBUST!
- What if script fails? What if the Govt website changes format?
- You get Slack notifications about the exceptions too.
- You have log files (check bot.log) too, to evaluate what went wrong
Don't like a feature? Change it! Raise a Pull Request too 😉

Installation

You need Python
You need a Slack account + Slack Webhook to send slack notifications to your account
Install dependencies by running

pip install tabulate
pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

Clone this repo and create auth.py

git clone https://github.com/rachitiitr/coronovirus-bot-tracker.git
cd coronovirus-bot-tracker
touch auth.py

Write your Slack Webhook into auth.py

DEFAULT_SLACK_WEBHOOK = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/<your custome webhook url>'

Setup the cron job to receive updates whenever something changes

crontab -e # opens an editor like vim or nano
# now write the following to run the bot every 5 mins
*/5 * * * * cd $PATH_TO_CLONE_DIR; python3 corona_bot.py --states 'haryana,maharashtra'
# to receive updates for all states, ignore the --states flag

coronavirus-bot-tracker's Issues

Add requirements.txt

First of all loved the video explanation of the project. Thanks for sharing it!
I know the number of dependencies is very less but it is good practice to add a requirement file so that people can just run
pip install -r requirements.txt

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