Covid-19 Status Notifier

Bot that notifies Mattermost/Slack channel about the status of Covid-19 disease in India (by scanning the website - https://www.mohfw.gov.in/)

Table of Content

• About-the-bot
• Demonstration
• Functionalities
• Installation

About-the-bot

On changes about status of Covid-19 virus on the official website - https://www.mohfw.gov.in/, the bot throws a message to Mattermost/Slack channel.

Demonstration

Demo on Mattermost Channel

Notification by Slack

Functionalities

• NOTIFICATIONS on MATTERMOST/SLACK on:
  • Increase in Covid-19 cases in India statewise
  • Increase in cured/discharged/migrated cases in India statewise
  • Increase in deaths per state
  • New states getting the virus
• RELIABLE: Source is the official government website, so it is reliable
• Logs important events in info.log
• Do you want to add any new functionality or modify existing ones ?
  • Please go through CONTRIBUTING.md and contribute to this repository

Installation

• Go language required
• Mattermost/Slack account required
• Mattermost/Slack Webhook URL required
• Get the required libraries:
  • go get github.com/anaskhan96/soup
  • go get github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter
• Good to Go:
  • Clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/abdulsmapara/covid-19-status-notifier.git
  

  • cd covid-19-status-notifier
  • Set TO_SLACK and/or TO_MATTERMOST to true depending on where you want to send the notification
  • Open consts.go and update SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL and/or MATTERMOST_WEBHOOK_URL with the webhook url available
  • Build the bot

   go build main.go consts.go utils.go

  • Create a cron job to recieve updates on changes in status

   crontab -e # Opens an editor
   # Run the bot every 10 minutes
   */10 * * * * cd $PATH_TO_CLONE_DIR;./main