shashankmistry31/vaccine-spotter-india

Simple python tool to track the covid-vaccine availability in India

Vaccine spotter for India

Vaccine spotter is a simple tool for tracking the availability of Covid vaccines in any state in India It uses the api from COWIN site to monitor for vaccine availability and sent an immediate email to user. ✨

Features

• Run in the terminal and monitor the vaccine availability
• Sent email to email address set by user immediately when there is vaccines available

Installation

Vaccine-spotter requires python3 to run

Set email details, district_id in the script

# For gmail, the lesssecureapps connection needs to be turned on for email to work :  https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
# need to change the smpt address for other mail providers

email_user = '[email protected]'
email_password = '<password>'

sent_from = email_user
to = ['<[email protected]>']

# time gap
minutes = 1

__district = "district_id"
'''
Some examples: 
295 - Kasargod
296 - Thiruvananthapuram
298 - kollam
299 - Wayanad
300 - Pathanamthitta
302 - Malappuram
303 - thrissue
305 - Kozikode
306- idukki
307 - ernakulam
308 - palakkad
'''

Run the script after setting the values

python vaccine_spotter.py

No data is collected from users . The script is open to verify

Development

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