covid-19-status-notifier

README

Mattermost Virus Tracker Bot

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

Table of Content

• About-the-bot
• Demonstration
• Features
• Installation
• Additional Info

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.

Demonstration

Features

• Get notifications on Mattermost :
  • New Corona Virus cases happening in India
  • How many Indian nationals have Corona Virus per state ?
  • How many deaths happened per state ?
  • New states getting the virus
• Source is the official government website, so it is reliable
• Logs important events in info.log

Installation

• Go language required
• Mattermost account required
• Mattermost 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/mattermost-virus-tracker.git
  

  • cd mattermost-virus-tracker
  • Open consts.go and update <WEBHOOK-URL> with the webhook url
  • 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
  

Additional Info

• Created by @abdulsmapara
• Released under Apache 2.0 license