cvs-vaccine-notifier

Polls CVS website for vaccine availability and notifies via text message

Installation

Requires node12 installed on your machine.

npm install

Setup

This project relies on the following external service dependencies:

• Google Distance Matrix API: to compute CVS vaccine locations within desired distance
• Twilio API: for SMS notifications

In order to get up and running you'll need to do the following:

1. Configure Twilio (trial) account
   1. Create account
   2. Add API credentials to config/default.js
   3. Provision a sending phone number and add to config/default.js
   4. Whitelist the numbers you want to notify for searches
2. Configure Google API account
   1. Create account
   2. Add credentials to config/default.js
   3. (you can skip this if you run with --any-distance option and you'll be notified for all available locations in your state)
3. Add searches for which you want notifications to search-jobs.js using the existing examples as a guide

Running

npm run start -- [--dry-run] [--any-distance] [--any-status]

To set the project up for automation, configure it under something like cron so it periodically checks, e.g. to run every 10 minutes from my home directory:

crontab -l

PATH=$PATH:/Users/rpachos/.nvm/versions/node/v14.15.5/bin
NODE_ENV=production
*/10 * * * * cd ~/cvs-vaccine-notifier/ && node -r esm run-notify.js >> ./vaccine.log

Options

• --dry-run: run without sending any notifications
• --any-distance: skip distance checks for your location vs CVS location (all locations in your state)
• --any-status: skip vaccine availability status check; for debugging only

Debugging

To see verbose debugging output about the work being done set environment variable before running:

DEBUG=notifier* <command above>