A simple python script to get the alert on vaccine slot availablity on a particular PIN code in India. Upon finding the slots in your area, warning.mp3 will be played to get your attention so that you can book the appointments.

The Code is written in Python 3.8. If you don't have Python installed you can find it here. If you are using a lower version of Python you can upgrade using the pip package, ensuring you have the latest version of pip.

To install pip run in the command Line

python -m ensurepip -- default-pip 

to upgrade it

python -m pip install -- upgrade pip setuptools wheel

to upgrade Python

pip install python -- upgrade

Important Shoot this command to install additional required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Open Terminal or Command Prompt and type

python individual_vaccine_slot_finder.py -p 125053

Running this script will continuously check for available slot in the PIN code 125053.

-p PINCODE, --pincode PINCODE

• PIN Code to look for vaccination slots.

-h, --help

• show this help message and exit

-a [18,45], --minAge [18,45]

• Minimum age to find the slots for. Default is 18.

-d DATE, --date DATE

• Date on which you want to find the slots. Format - '16-05-2021'

Getting an appointment for vaccination is a huge challenging in my area. I have been able get the vaccination with my entire family just because of the script. I am using a scalable version of the same script to get the slots availability alert for my near and dear ones. So yes, it works at the time of latest commit.

Please book the appointment for one who doesn't have the access to internet. They need it the most.

The www.cowin.gov.in's server will block your request after some time if you continue to send request using the same IP address. To tackle it, some free proxies from proxies.py are randomaly being rotated in a random time interval. Feel free to add some more https proxies to keep the script running.

Rohit Swami

Copyright 2021 Rohit Swami

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