jimmyhartwell / COVID-19-tracker

Track COVID-19 cases from command line

Tracking COVID-19 numbers from Command Line/TouchBar

• Summary of COVID-19 cases globally and for specific countries
• Bar graphs of historical numbers of cases

Usage

• Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/tienbach/COVID-19-tracker.git
• Install modules in requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run:

python COVID-19-tracker/tracker.py [country ...]

• Then you can set an alias like alias covid="python COVID-19-tracker/tracker.py" to quickly track numbers

Examples

python tracker.py
python tracker.py us --days 10
python tracker.py us germany netherlands

Screenshots

Used in terminal

Used on TouchBar

TouchBar Widget

If you want even more depression looking at the case numbers:

• Install BetterTouchTool and open it
• Choose Touch Bar in the dropdown menu on top and then the plus + sign at the bottom
• In the Touch Bar Trigger Config column, choose Shell Script / Task Widget
• In the Scipt field, put echo $(python3 [Path to tracker_touchbar.py] -a us germany) to track active cases for the US and Germany. Optional args: -a active cases, -d deaths, -r recovered cases. Active cases number shown by default
• In the Execute script every field, put what you want. For me it's 3600
• If you use virtualenv, make sure to put the command to activate it before the command above

Notes

• termgraph.py is copied over from https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph with 2 lines of bug fix of mine
• Tested only on macOS Catalina with Python 3.7