Covid19 Vaccine slot availability tracker for India

This bash script takes Date and Area pin code as Input and shows various information about vaccination centre available at the given location

NOTE: This script will work only with Indian IPs, as Cowin API server do not allow access from outside India.

Requirements:

• jq (sudo apt install jq)
• curl (sudo apt install curl)

How to Use:

The script takes two arguments: <date> <area-pin-code>

Print usage instructions

./app -h

Simple use case:

./app <date> <area-pin-code>

Where date is passed in any format that the date command accept see examples here and area-pin-code is the PIN code of area/location you want to get information about. You can find area pin code for your location here

Example usage:

To, see information about various covid vaccination centres for pin code 246149 for Today:

./app  $(date +'today') 246149

or

./app  today 246149

To, see information about various covid vaccination centres for pin code 246149 for tomorrow:

./app  $(date +'tomorrow') 246149

or

./app  tomorrow 246149

To, see information various covid vaccination centres for pin code 246149 of specified date i.e, of 2021-05-16 :

./app  2021-05-16 246149

What else could be done

The script is in early development stage, please contribute to bring more features. I quickly assembled and rolled this in few hours, am no BASH expert. so looking forward for contributors.

Features I am wishing to add:

• Ability to run this script or a separate script as CRON job and notify user about the availability of slot after set interval using notify-send? etc.