- 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 😉
- 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/shadowdevcode/corona-bot/
cd corona-bot
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