Cowin Automate

Automation script to collect vaccination availability data and send vaccination availability emails by utilizing Cowin API.

Installation

Clone the source repository from Github.

$ git clone https://github.com/kartikeyas00/cowin-automate.git

Install the required python libraries from requirements.txt file.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

Usage

Once installed, this is very easy to use. First, change the configurations in the config.yml file according to your need.

Then setup the sqlite3 database by giving create_db argument in main.py file:

$ python main.py create_db

To get the email updates, give email_alerts argument to main.py file:

$ python main.py email_alerts

To collect the data in the created database, give data_collector argument in main.py file:

$ python main.py data_collector

Possible Use Cases

There can be multiple use cases for this project:

1. use email_alerts to send vaccine availability alerts periodically by automating the script with Crontab or task scheduler in case of windows.
2. use data_collector to collect data periodically which can be used for research purposes or buiding a service of some kind.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, please follow these steps:

1. fork this repository
2. make your changes
3. Submit a pull request and describe your changes in detail.

Acknowledgements

• Co-WIN Public APIs