Sadly this project is no longer maintained.
The website accessed for data was comletely relaunched and the implemented scraping process doesn't work anymore.
Interested in the bot-structure itself?
Have a look at my ready to use bot-template including inline-query handling and a database using SQLAchemy.
It's the essence of this project combined with parts from my other telegram projects:
https://github.com/nonchris/telegram-bot
This bot sends automated updates via telegram, when new covid-numbers are published on the local website.
- Choose which locations you want to be updated about
- Get graphs on demand using
show (location)
To do this the bot excecutes the following steps:
- requests the latest covid-19 numbers from the specified website
- reads html table and fits it into a json if data is from 'today'
- generates data tables using the saved jsons and
pandas - creates plots for each location from those tables
- automatical dispatch of the generated images to those who are subscribed
The whole process is written to handle data from the Kreis Ahrweiler in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
This is also why the bots output is in german.
It might be simpler to write a new bot than porting this to you local governments website.
But feel free to copy some blocks of code you like, as long as your code stays open source :)