https://github.com/muskanpaliwal/coronovirus_bot

Scans the official Government website and throws notifications to Slack when new cases arise(Ministry of Health and Family Welfare)
https://github.com/muskanpaliwal/coronovirus_bot

coronavirus coronavirus-tracking python scraping-websites slack-webhook

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/muskanpaliwal/coronovirus_bot
• Owner: MuskanPaliwal
• Created: 2020-03-23T03:49:03.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-01-04T05:56:33.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T22:14:41.561Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: coronavirus, coronavirus-tracking, python, scraping-websites, slack-webhook
• Language: Python
• Size: 57.6 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# CoronaVirus Bot for India (Covid19)

![Corona Slack Bot](https://github.com/MuskanPaliwal/Coronovirus_Bot/blob/master/BotWorkingImg/Screenshot%20from%202020-03-23%2017-40-40.png)

## 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

```bash

pip install tabulate

pip install requests

pip install beautifulsoup4

```

- Clone this repo and create auth.py

```bash

git clone https://github.com/MuskanPaliwal/Coronovirus_Bot.git

cd Coronovirus_Bot

touch auth.py

```

- Write your Slack Webhook into auth.py

```python

DEFAULT_SLACK_WEBHOOK = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/'

```

- Setup the cron job to receive updates whenever something changes

```bash

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

```