benjamin-sommer / covid-19-uk-tracker

Covid-19 United Kingdom Tracker

About the Project | How to Install

About The Project

Bitbar Plugin to track Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom from the MacOS menu bar.

Built with:

• Bitbar
• Novel COVID API

How to Install

1. Installing BitBar

There are two ways to install BitBar on your Mac:

• Use Homebrew: brew cask install bitbar.
• Or download .app file directly: Get the latest version of BitBar. Then copy it to your Applications folder and run it - it will ask you to (create and) select a plugins folder, do so.

2. Installing Python

• Install Python by following the instructions here.
• Make sure your node exec resides in usr/local/bin/node, else you will have to update the path in the script.

3. Installing requests with pip

• Run sudo -H pip install requests --upgrade to install the latest version of the requests module

4. Saving this script

• Download the script on your local machine. Make sure you place this file in the same plugin folder which you created while installing Bitbar.
• Go to the plugin folder and run chmod +x covid-19-uk-tracker.py
• Refresh Bitbar.