This is an educational project as part of the Microverse Curriculum. I use Telegram Bot API to connect and create a Bot that replies with the latest data information from the COVID19 API. This means data by country and location. The user can get the latest numbers by country and worldwide. The project was built using Ruby and deployed to Heroku. Production is underperforming due to a free account on Heroku. Reach out if you’re interested in how we can take this bot further.
Covid -> Your daily Covid update news
Covid provides the latest data on how the Pandemia has evolved globally and by country over/ All through Telegram.
Provide the latest data from the Pandemic situation worldwide. Start talking with Covid.
Table of Contents
Getting Started
You can chat directly with the bot by searching for @mv_covid_bot on Telegram. Click here.)
Prerequisites
To install this project on your own and create another bot with the same logic, please be sure to install and use:
- Ruby,
- Gems within Ruby,
- Heroku for deployment,
- Rspec for running tests.
Install
- Fork this project into your local machine.
- Create a bot token here and include it on a .env file. Save the variable as ‘TOKEN’.
- Open your project directory on your terminal
- Install gems by running “bundle install” on your terminal
- Run ‘ruby bin/main.rb’ on your terminal.
- Open Telegram and start talking with @mv_covid_bot
Usage
- The bot generates a main command menu by writing /start
- Follow the instructions.
Commands
Start
Provide the main menu and the recent global numbers.
Send your location
Share your location to get the stats from your country
See list of countries
Select the ‘Select a specific country’ to get a list of all of the current countries from which you can get data.
Type a specific country
Type a country from the list and see its stats up to date.
About The Project
This is a educational project as part of the Microverse Curriculum.
Built With
- Ruby version 2.6.5,
- Telegram/bot
- Covid API
- Rspec
Tests
- Run rspec for testing bot and covid_api classes. This will mainly test that each country has the data with no problem.
Authors
👤 Santiago Rodriguez
- Github: @santiagorodriguezbermudez
- Twitter: @srba87
- Linkedin: @srba87
- Email: [email protected]
🤝 Contributing
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page.
Show your support
Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!
Acknowledgments
- Special thanks to The Ocicats team from Microverse!
- Maria Reyes for making the suggestion to work with Telegram
- Ruby gem: Telegram Bot Ruby
📝 License
Bot Icon of the virus by Arya Icons from the Noun Project
This project is MIT licensed.