COVID-19 bot

A bot that monitors datasources for COVID-19

How to run locally

• Make sure you have python 3.8 python --version
• Create a virtual environment python -m venv venv/
• Activate venv source venv/bin/activate
• Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
• Add required environment variables
• Run the script python3 bot.py

Environment Variables

The following are required:

• APP_LOGS controls where logs are written
• APP_LOGLEVEL controls the loglevel
• CONSUMER_KEY Twitter consumer key
• CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET Twitter consumer key secret
• ACCESS_TOKEN Twitter access token
• ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET Twitter access token secret
• GSHEET_API_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE The json file with google API service account credentials
• GSHEET_POLLING_INTERVAL_SEC controls how often gsheet is polled. Defaults to 60
• GSHEET_SPREADSHEET_ID the Spreadsheet id
• GSHEET_SHEET_NAME the individual sheet name
• SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL slack webhook URL
• DB_PATH the filepath of the sqlite3 db
• POST_SLACK when true posts to Slack are enabled
• POST_TWITTER when true posts to Twitter are enabled