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CoronaVirus Bot for India (Covid19)

Corona Slack Bot

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.

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/MuskanPaliwal/Coronovirus_Bot.git
cd Coronovirus_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 covid-19_bot.py --states 'haryana,maharashtra'
# to receive updates for all states, ignore the --states flag