COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker

A Twitter bot tracking COVID-19 Vacciation numbers in Hungary.

Nothing fancy, just a simple Twitter bot running as an Azure Function.

Building

# just simply
go build -o hucovidtracker

Deployment

Deploy as an Azure Function.

1. Create an account

2. Create a resource group

   deploy_region="westeurope"                                                                                    
   deploy_group="go-custom-function"                                                                            
   az group create -l $deploy_region -n $deploy_group 

3. Build

4. Create resources for Azure Function from deployment ARM (Azure Resource Management) template.

   az deployment group create --resource-group $deploy_group --template-file azuredeploy.json

5. Set API keys and secrets @ portal.azure.com.

   $deploy_group > azure function > Settings|Configuration > New application settings x 4

6. Deploy

   func azure functionapp publish `[function name/ID]` --no-build --force

Under the Hood

Simple 3-step prepation and tweet

• Fetch last tweet (needs bootstrapping the account) and parse last reported number
• Fetch latest vaccincation number from country specific source
• Fetch population from wikimedia
• Tweet status update