Corona Bot

A Telegram bot that gives latest updates about confirmed COVID-19 cases in India, pulling the information from the website of the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (https://www.mohfw.gov.in/)

How to deploy:

1. Create directory: mkdir corona_bot && cd corona_bot
2. Clone the repo: git clone github.com/ankan17/corona_bot.git src
3. Create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv .
4. Activate virtual environment: source bin/activate
5. Install dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
6. Use the instructions here to generate the bot token and get the group id: https://dev.to/mddanishyusuf/build-telegram-bot-to-send-daily-notification-4i00
7. Copy the .env.example file and update the bot token and the group id: cp src/.env.example src/.env and update the .env file
8. Check if scraper.py is working properly: python3 scraper.py (You should see a message)
9. Schedule the job using crontab (this schedules the job to run every 10 minutes)

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e
*/10 * * * * cd path/to/corona_bot && source bin/activate && python3 src/scraper.py >/tmp/stdout.log 2>/tmp/stderr.log

10. Done!

Source of information: https://www.mohfw.gov.in/