Nova Scotia COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment Availability

This program prints all clinics in Nova Scotia where COVID-19 vaccine appointment is available. In addition, it can also automatically send an email notification whenever the appointment gets available, if integrated with cloud scheduler.

Note:- This can only work for Nova Scotia (one of the provinces of Atlantic Canada)

Installation

• This program is based on Python language. So, the first step is to install Python 3, if haven't installed in machine yet.

  To verify if Python is installed correctly, run this command inside command prompt / terminal:

  python --version
  

• (Optional Step) For running python, it is always recommended to have different virtual envs. for each project. So, make a new virtual environment:

  pip install virtualenv
  virtualenv ns-vaccine-appointment-venv
  

  Next, activate the virtual environment:

  For Windows:

  ns-vaccine-appointment-venv\Scripts\activate
  

  For Mac / Linux:

  source ns-vaccine-appointment-venv/bin/activate
  

• Install the required open-source libraries to run this program:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

Run

1. Manually running the program

   In order to get the list of clinics in real time for specific filters, we will need to run a python program:

   python appointment_availability.py
   

   We can modify the filters by changing variable values inside main method.