https://github.com/juanjosalvador/covid19-reporter-bot

Bot that reports every hour COVID-19 status at Spain (or any other country) for Telegram and Mastodon
https://github.com/juanjosalvador/covid19-reporter-bot

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Bot that reports every hour COVID-19 status at Spain (or any other country) for Telegram and Mastodon

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/juanjosalvador/covid19-reporter-bot
• Owner: JuanjoSalvador
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-03-15T01:00:22.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-08T03:48:25.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T12:57:35.958Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: covid19, covid19-data, mastodon, mastodon-bot, telegram, telegram-bot
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://hispatodon.club/@covid19_spa
• Size: 20.5 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# COVID-19 Reporter

Bot that reports whenever you want the COVID-19 status at your country. All the data is taken from [Worldometers](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/).

## Running the bot on your VPS

### Prerequisites

* A VPS (the 5$ Digital Ocean tier will ne nice for this)

* Python 3 installed on your VPS

* For Mastodon, you will need:

    * A Mastodon account for your bot.

    * An API key for your bot. Check Mastodon's docs if you don't know how to do this part.

* For Telegram, you will need:

    * A Telegram bot account.

    * A Telegram's API key. Both can be obtained from Botfather.

    

### Install

1. Clone or download and unzip the repo.

1. Create a virtual environment for the bot (optional) and install the requirements with `pip`.

1. Rename the `settings.example.ini` to `settings.ini`

2. Set your API keys for the service you want, Telegram, Mastodon or both.

3. Set your country in the `main.py` file, under the global variable `COUNTRY`, by default is Spain.

3. To update the bot every 2 hours, add to your crontab something like this:

        0 */2 * * * python3 /path/to/your/bot/folder/main.py

## Other platforms

You can also run this bot on AWS Lambda, Heroku, PythonAnywhere, etc. Just choose your favourite.

## The bot in action

My version of this bot is running on my Mastodon instance and serves Mastodona and Telegram. You can see it here:

* [Mastodon](https://hispatodon.club/@covid19_spa)

* [Telegram](https://t.me/covid19_spa)

Updated every two hours!