Command Line Covid-19 Status

Note

This was just a quick script I wrote to consume data via bash. I in no way vouch for whatever data it spits out and frankly don't care as it's just to test jq.

Just a script that helps automate the receiving and parsing of Covid-19 data.

I built this for myself since I didn't want to rely on an irc bot since I'm not online 24/7, so offline is a must, simplicity, less data usage because my x200 doesn't get the best wifi signal when out.

Requirements: This requires jq which I recommend having if you consume a lot of data via shell scripts, it makes your life a lot easier.

What do?

The main file is c19-update.sh, this is only ran when you want to update the data. Use an alias to access the data and grep what you need. cat or less the cached formatted data and that's about it.

Alias

If you want to make full use of this script I'd recommend making an alias for it, since, c'mon, I know you want to keep looking at the stats.

alias covid-stats="cat ~/.cache/corona-formatted" \
      covid-update="<path-to-script>/c19-update.sh" \

Cron

If you want to be big-brained about it and not have to worry about running an alias every time you want something, then think about modifying the script by removing the case and setting to a cron job. I don't want to make assumptions when putting a repo on github so I have that conditional for it.

@daily <path-toscript>/c19-update.sh

Note: Remember to run the update script first. After you do that it's saved in that ~/.cache/corona_stats so just cat that to see what there is.