#Coronavirus stats bot for Telegram

Simple Ruby bot for fetching the data from JHU CSSE COVID-19 Repo and pushing to a specified Telegram group or channel.

Stores previous data in previous.json for comparison and to ignore the data that has not changed.

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#Configuration

Check out the supplied config.example.yml for the configuration file format.

What you'll need:

• A country code of the country you're interested in,
• Telegram bot API Key, to be obtained on Telegram using the @BotFather bot,
• A group or a channel where the messages will be posted

#Running

ruby bot.rb path/to/config.yml path/to/previous.json