COVID VACCINE TRACKER 🇮🇳

Python app to check vaccine availability and publish the result to a Telegram group

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Technologies🚀

Python version

• 3.8

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Installation🚀

Clone

• Clone this repo to your local machine

Setup

• Install pip

• Get into the project root folder

• Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create .env file in the project root folder

touch .env

• Add the following as environtment variables in the .env file just created

TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=REPLACE-YOUR-TELEGRAM-CHAT-ID-HERE
BOT_URL=REPLACE-YOUR-BOT-URL-HERE

• Don't know how to create a bot and get chat id? No problem... Click here

• Finally! Run the script!

python3 main.py

• You should see messages from your bot in the group on telegram

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Telegram Bot🚀

Creating a bot

• Use telegrams BotFather for creating Telegram Bots. Search @BotFather

• Start a new chat with BotFather. Send /newbot

• BotFather will take you further to create a bot.

• After successfull creation, you will get a token to access HTTP API.

• Copy that and pase it in your bot_url in constants.py

How to get telegram_chat_id

• Add the Telegram BOT to the group.

• Get the list of updates for your BOT:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates

• Note: The api call returns empty if there are no chat history in the group.

• If updates are present there will be a chat key with id present in its value.

• This is your telegram_chat_id. - Copy that and pase it in your telegram_chat_id in constants.py

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Use Case🚀

• Do you have an unused Raspberry Pi? Then it is great, go ahead and set-up a cron job of desired interval to get notified.

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Team🚀

Our Contributors

👨‍💻vpk11👨‍💻

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References🚀

• Cowin Public API: https://apisetu.gov.in/public/api/cowin