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Vaccine Availability Telegram Notifier

With the initiation of the COVID vaccination drive across India for all individuals above the age of 18, I wrote a telegram bot which alerts the user regarding open slots in the vicinity!

Check it out!

Project Overview

  • svc - Registration API
  • telegram_bot - Telegram Bot code.
  • lambda_function.py - Scheduler code for the AWS Lambda function.
  • script.py - Script to run the notifier once.

Script Setup

You can also run the local script with your own configurations.

Clone this Repository

git clone https://github.com/arnavkohli/vaccine-availability-telegram-notifier.git

Navigate to the cloned directory & install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Update environment variables

Open the file .env and replace the dummy values with a legitimate Telegram Bot Key and a Telegram Chat ID.

TELEGRAM_BOT_KEY=<TELEGRAM_BOT_KEY_HERE>
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=<TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID_HERE>

Run the script

python script.py --pincodes 244413 627401

Testing

Set environment variables

Following variables are expected to be set in the environment before running the tests.

TELEGRAM_BOT_KEY
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID

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