Viet Nam - Covid Tracker

A crawler tool to crawl data from Covid Viet Nam to google sheets automatically.

Requires:

1. Python - 3.9 or newer
2. Pipenv
3. Google Drive API
4. Google Sheets
5. Azure Virtual Machine
6. Tableau
7. Crontab
8. Basic Linux knowledges

Getting Started:

2 - Pipenv Setup:

Use $ pip install pipenv to install pipenv. Then create & move to the folder you want to be project folder. With pipfile in your project's file, install all dependencies $ pipenv install.

3 - Google Drive API Setup:

• Go to Google Cloud Platform, create new project.
• Go to API & Services -> Enable Apis & services. Enable "Google Drive API" and "Google Sheets API".
• Click on IAM & Admin, go to services account -> create a new services account.
• Move to key tab -> ADD KEY -> Create new key -> Json type. NOTE: keep this json's key file to connect with google sheets.

4 - Google Sheets Setup:

• Create new sheet, name it "csv-to-gg-sheet" (change any as your wish, need to change in source code too).
• Add 1 work sheet name "covid_cases" to store covid case every day, 1 work sheet name "covid_death" to store covid death case every day. *Note: when change sheets name we need to change it name in source code too.
• Publish both sheets to web with csv type, save the share link to use in script.

5 - Azure Virtual Machine:

• Go to Azure, create new Virtual Machine, save it's ssh_key.pem.
• Connect with Virtual Machine throgh ssh protocol, install python.
• Push source code, pipfile, ssh_key.pem file, json's key file to remote machine.
• Install all dependencies by pipenv at step 2.

6 - Tableau Setup:

• Download Tableau, use google sheet as data source, make your visualization.
• Publish Tableau visualization to the tableau public server, it will auto update(1 per day) when your google sheet data change.

7 - Crontab Setup:

• On Azure Virtual Machine run $ crontab -e -> set cronjob to run source code at every time you wish.