Introduction • Requirements • Installation • Working of Bot • How it Works • Thanks ❤

This Project uses an API from Cowin Portal to find available doses of vaccines and automatically notifies the users via Telegram Chat.

• Python 3.3+
• macOs or Linux or Windows

git clone https://github.com/arhamshah/Cowin_Vaccine_Availability_Bot.git
cd Cowin_Vaccine_Availability_Bot

python -m venv c:\path\to\myenv

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Data for upto 7 days is extracted from an API.
• Iterating over data to check for available vaccine doses.
• If any dose available then a message is sent via Telegram API to a specific channel.
• The particular data which has been sent to telegram is cached for 1 hour to prevent multiple notifications.
• Data from API is updated every 4 seconds.

• Government of India for providing open API to extract the data in real time.
• Shout-out to developers & contributors of Requests, cachetools.