Python app using the Twilio Python API for WhatsApp, the requests package for Telegram and the Heroku Python script hosting solution to send WhatsApp and Telegram messages once a new article related to COVID-19 is published on the State of Vaud website.

• 1. Description
• 2. Getting started
  • 2.1 Dependencies
  • 2.2 Installing
  • 2.3 Executing program
• 3. Version history

covid-19-notifier is a Python app running on the Heroku web server that makes use of the selenium Python package to scrape the web and check every 12 hours if a new article related to COVID-19 has been published on the State of Vaud website. If a new article concerning COVID-19 has effectively been published, a COVID-19 recap WhatsApp and Telegram message is sent to my phone. The message contains some info about the number of new cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in Switzerland and the web links to the Canton of Vaud website and the COVID-19 news for Switzerland. To be sure to properly back up important info and COVID-19 statistics, the program consults and updates the dedicated "covid 19 notifier spreadsheet" Google spreadsheet (situated on my Google Drive in "My Drive > Programmation > Real-TimeNotificationsForCOVID-19Cases"):

Here are other interesting websites regarding the current COVID-19 situation in the State of Vaud:

• Hotline et Informations sur le Coronavirus (for a summary of the directives currently in force in Canton of Vaud)
• CoTrack (for the Canton of Vaud)

Concerning covid-19-notifier_test.py:

• Tested on macOS Catalina version 10.15.7
• Python 3.6

For testing covid-19-notifier_test.py, install the required packages by typing following Terminal command at the root of the project:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To deploy the covid-19-notifier Python web app on the Heroku web server, please refer to the instructions in the _ApproachToHostOnHeroku.rtfd file situated in the _Resources folder or feel free to contact me with questions.

The covid-19-notifier_test.py test script can be run by typing following command at the root of the project:

python3.6 covid-19-notifier_test.py

Concerning the actual web app, once deployed, the app automatically and continuously runs on the Heroku web server.

• 0.1
  • Initial release