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May 1, 2020 ยท View on GitHub

COVID-Box

๐Ÿฆ  Update a gist to contain global or per country coronavirus stats

covid-box is a GitHub Action that is designed to work using the schedule event.

GitHub Actions status


Setup

Prep work

  1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/)
  2. Create a personal access token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new)

Project setup

  1. Fork this repository
  2. Go to the repo Settings > Secrets
  3. Add the following environment variables:
    • GH_PAT: The personal access token generated above.
    • GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url: https://gist.github.com/puf17640/f091f6edaca9b14d5a149983526feb63.
    • COUNTRY: Specify a country name to show country specific data, if omitted, Global data is shown.
  4. Wait for it to update! ๐ŸŽ‰

Credits

This project uses the covidapi npm package to get all the data from NovelCOVID API


Inspired by JasonEtco/activity-box