rjnienaber / tiersforbeers

Turns gov.uk's coronavirus restrictions checker into an rss feed

tiersforbeers 🍻

Turns the gov.uk coronavirus restrictions checker into an RSS feed.

Why? Because I got tired of checking the location tier status of my friends. This app takes in a query string of locations/postal codes and generates an RSS feed once a day, showing any changes in tier status.

Installation (Glitch)

1. Create a new account or sign into Glitch
2. Click New Project and in the popup click the Import from GitHub button.
3. Paste in the GitHub repo for the tiersforbeers project: https://github.com/rjnienaber/tiersforbeers
4. A new project should be generated in about a minute.

Usage

There's currently no UI to this so you have to construct the RSS feed url yourself.

N.B. Like the gov.uk site, this only supports England at the moment. There are different restrictions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

1. (Glitch) Click Show and choose In a New Window.
2. You should get a text representation of the documentation you're currently reading being served up at /
3. Append rss.xml and add locations as key/value pairs e.g. /rss.xml?The Queen=SW1A 1AA&Sherlock Holmes=NW1 6XE
4. You should get an RSS file back with all the locations you've specified in the query string.

Feedback

Bugs? Feature Requests? File an issue on GitHub.