NY State Vaccine Appointment Availability Notifications

A program to send pushover notifications and twilio texts when vaccine appointments become available using a python script running within a docker container

Requirements

• a free ScraperAPI account (the script will not exceed the amount of free requests per week)
• a free Twilio account
• a free Pushover account
• (optional) a healthchecks.io account

To Run

1. Create a Pushover API token for this app
2. (optional) create a healthchecks.io check for this app with cron expression */30 * * * *
3. Rename config.yaml.sample to config.yaml and input your Twilio, ScraperAPI, and Pushover details into config.yaml
   • NOTE: ensure all phone number in config.yaml are in quotation marks and include +1, as seen in sample
4. Mark the locations that you would like to be notified about as true in locations.yaml
5. (optional) input the healthchecks.io check URL into docker-compose.yml
6. On your server, navigate to this directory and run docker compose up -d to start