Cowin-Notifier

What does it do?

Informs you about all the vaccination slots available for you within a week

Platform supported

Windows

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/AaveshK/Cowin-Notifier.git

Install the required libraries

pip install -r requirements.txt

Working

Run the Cowin.py file

python cowin.py

1. Enter your pincode
2. Enter your age

That's it. The script will now keep you updated every minute.

Getting notifications

Make sure that the Focus assist is off and not priority only/alarms only

When any vacant slot is found

If there are no slots available, there will not be any notification and the terminal will look similar to this

Modifications

1. The updation time can be changed by changing

60 in @tl.job(interval=timedelta(seconds=60))

By default, the updation occurs every 60 seconds

2. The duration of the notification can be increased/decreased by changing

40 in if count ==1: hr.show_toast("Vaccine slot alert", "Earliest slot available at "+i["name"]+" on "+str(j["date"]),duration=40)

The default time is 40 seconds

Known Issues

• windows python service error: (-2147467259, 'Shell_NotifyIcon', 'Unspecified error')
  This is rare, and restarting the system fixes it for me.