vaccine-notifi-bot

Code to send cowin vaccine slots availability notifications over telegram

Steps:

Get a cloud VM. Oracle cloud gives two for free. Choose any India region while signing up. Other regions may get rate limited.
install python,pip and telegram-send
- sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip
- pip3 install telegram-send
Run telegram-send to send messages in a group
- run telegram-send --configure-group and follow the instructions on screen. It will involve through creating a bot, group and adding the bot to group
- test out teelgram send: run telegram-send "hello world"
Configure your district:
- to get state ID use: curl -X GET "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/admin/location/states" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Accept-Language: hi_IN"
- use the state id to get district info.: curl -X GET "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/admin/location/districts/16" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Accept-Language: hi_IN"
- edit the python file and put in your district ID
Run the runme.sh in screen. This will keep polling the api and send a message in the group is slots are open.
- run screen and then runme.sh
- if you want to keep getting messages for empty slots run screen and then runme.sh debug

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