Welcome to Break the chain 👋

🤩 How to Run

Prerequisite : Install Sqlite

Basic setup:

$ git clone https://github.com/Akshay090/break-the-chain 
$ cd break-the-chain
$ pip install pipenv
$ pipenv shell
$ pipenv install

🤐 Set env value for News Api

Get your api from https://newsapi.org/

make a .env file in project root directory like example.env, then add api key to it

Setup Database

$ flask db init
$ flask db migrate
$ flask db upgrade

Scrape and Populate database

It get covid-19 data from https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and news from https://newsapi.org/

These are flask scripts, you can setup a cron job to run this this periodically to get latest data

$ flask scrape
$ flask update-news

😋 Run Flask application:

$ flask run

🎇 Now make the port available to twilio

Install ngrok

ngrok http 5000

Now add the ngrok url to https://www.twilio.com/console/sms/whatsapp/sandbox to WHEN A MESSAGE COMES IN to with whatsapp OR to https://www.twilio.com/console/phone-numbers and click on phone no you bought, and add ngrok url to A MESSAGE COMES IN field

This application is written using Python 3.7.

✨ Bot commands

👉 add state {state name}

👉 all states

👉 remove state {state name}

👉 get news

👉 what is covid 19

👉 symptoms of covid 19

👉 how to be safe

👉 help

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Additional Resource

Blog post at dev.to

📝 License

Copyright © 2020 Akshay Ashok.

This project is MIT licensed.