Covid-19 Bot

A bot that post updates about Covid-19 pandemic to a Slack channel.

Information source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Requirements

Minimal requirement is just docker or Python3.8

You will also need a Slack webhook url.

Usage

The application uses docker for easier deployment. You can use the Makefile commands to do all the tasks.

To run the application:

export SLACK_WEBHOOK="https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxx"
export CHANNEL="#xxxxxx" # optional
make build
make run

Add/Remove countries

Edit the config.json file.

Key is the anchor from the worldometers's table, value is how to display in slack.

Contribute

You can install the environment, or use the docker environment.

With docker:

make init

With local environment:

Install a Python3.8 environment, and optionally create a virtualenv.

make install

To run locally:

export SLACK_WEBHOOK="https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxx"
export CHANNEL="#xxxxxx" # optional
python3.8 app.py

Testing

You can run the various checks with:

make precommit

Or individual check (see list in Makefile):

make check.lint