surya76657/coronovirus-bot-tracker

Scans the official Government website and throws notifications to Slack when new cases arise (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare)

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