cowin-pincode-alert

A daemon which can monitor vaccine availability for a particular pincode and push notifications to telegram

What-this-does:

• Runs as a daemon monitoring for a pincode ( every 1 minute )
• If there is any availability, it sends notification to telegram
• From second run onwards, it compares the data with previous run and send notification only if there is any positive-change in the availability ( i.e., a centre may get added, number of doses may increase/decrease, but still non-zero)

Pre-requisite:

• You can run this daemon in a computer/cloud ( azure etc ) 24x7
• A telegram account

Steps to run this daemon:

1. Change "pin_code" variable in main.py to your desired pincode
2. pip install --user telegram-send and pip install --user cowin-vaccine-api
3. Run "telegram --configure" and follow on-screen instructions to setup a bot for yourself(where you will receive notification)
4. Modify cowin-alert.service ExecStart path where main.py is stored in your computer
5. Copy cowin-alert.service to ~/.config/systemd/user
6. Start with "systemctl --user start cowin-alert" and check with "systemctl --user status cowin-alert.service"

Thats all, if everything goes well, you should see notification in your mobile, whenever its available.

TODO: [] - Add filtering options ( eg: age_limit, vaccin preference , timeout ) [] - Delete stale entries from cache [] - Explore multiple pincodes