divinsmathew / cowatch

COVID-19 Co-WIN Vaccine Tracker (India). Get pinged when a slot is available in your area.

Overview

Born out of necessity, this project helps you book your COVID-19 vaccination slot (if you live in India). Get pinged when a new vaccination slot becomes available in your area through sound alerts and browser notifications.

This program cannot book a vaccination slot for you, instead it uses the Co-WIN APIs to alert you when a new slot becomes available.

🚀 Demo

Checkout a live version of CoWatch here.

The Co-WIN API

CoWatch makes use of the Indian Government's Co-WIN API, to fetch vaccination slot data. These APIs are publicly available for use by third party applications. However, they do limit the number of API calls to 100 per 5 minutes per IP. Consider this if you're planning to build something awesome on top of this project.

Setup

This project is written in vanilla Javascript and can be ran out of the box, without any dependencies.

Usage

Usage is pretty straight forward. The tool only works with Indian IP addresses so disconnect your VPN if needed.

• Select your state and district.
• Here you can browse through the available health centres and vaccination slots.
• Press on Start Watching. Script will start to continuously query and refresh the data once at every specified interval. (15 seconds by default).
• When a new slot becomes available, you'll be alerted by sounds and browser notifications.
• Do not close the tab while watching.

Shareable URL

The URL can be configured to point to a specific district and display its slots. This can be done by providing corresponding districtId as a query parameter: /?districtId=xx

Example: https://divinsmathew.github.io/cowatch/?districtId=140

Refer districts.json for a list of valid district IDs. Invalid districtIds are ignored.

Configure Locally

To modify CoWatch:

• Clone the repository. using ! Git Clone https://github.com/divinsmathew/cowatch.git
• To modify the watching time interval, edit the refreshInterval variable here and set the value in milliseconds. Remember not to modify intervals to below 3000ms to remain compliant with the Co-WIN Public API regulations.
• By default, CoWatch uses a cached version of state and district data for better load times. Now, this works fine, but if the back-end were to modify the district-id mappings, use buildAllDistrictIdMap method in districts.js to re-generate the updated district-id mappings. Or you can also uncomment this line instead, to prevent using cached data.

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Contributions

Contributions are always welcome! Feel free to clone and improve the project.

cowatch's Issues

How to avoid cached data

Plz explain in detail what setting needs to b done to get only updated data instead of cached data. I m not very techy person so i couldnt understand the explanation given by u on page. Plz elaborate