Instructions

This leverages the NYT Github repo csv file that gets updated periodically. It will scan for the latest date for a given locale (designated by a FIPS number). These FIPS numbers are county/state specific.

Prerequisites

1. You need a place for this to run. AWS Lightsail, EC2, docker containers are all good.
2. You need a Twilio account.

Building

• Do a go build -o covidsms, be sure to set GOOS if you need to target something other than your build machine. Example: env GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build covidsms

Testing

• Set envvars as below, then do a go test ./... from root. NOTE: You'll need everything but the FIPS number, as the test will send via Twilio.

Running

1. You need the following envvars set; and you can use a .env file like so:

export TWILIOAPI=<REDACTED>
export TWILIOSECRET=<REDACTED>
export NYTURL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/master/us-counties.csv
export TWILIONUMBER=<REDACTED>
export FIPS=<Retrieve your FIPS location by scanning the CSV file above, and locating your county/state.>
export TONUMBERS=<REDACTED>

2. Once you create the above .env file, simply do a source .env, followed by a ./covidsms.