vaccine-notifi-bot

Code to send cowin vaccine slots availability notifications over telegram

Steps:

1. Get a cloud VM. Oracle cloud gives two for free. Choose any India region while signing up. Other regions may get rate limited.
2. install python,pip and telegram-send
   • sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip
   • pip3 install telegram-send
3. 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"
4. 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
5. 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