Kerala specific! about covid-vaccine-booking HOT 12 CLOSED

Adding a beginning date input would be super easy.

I skipped it for primarily two reasons:

• In my experience, slots after next one week are usually not open and if it is, it's usually not too hard to get those.
• When I made this for my personal use, I was trying to get a slot at the earliest.

Nonetheless, it's good idea. Will try to implement it some time.

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@pallupz I'm not very good at GitHub - but I've made changes to the code to check for min_age criterion while booking (to accommodate 18+ bookings, and match only to centers accepting 18 plus). Can you walk me through how to submit it as a PR?

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I haven't used Github for public projects before either. Are you able to create a branch? If yes, you can make the changes and create a pull request.

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Figured it out.
I need to fork it, make a branch on my end, then push to it, and raise a PR. Did that.

PS : I couldn't get PyInstaller to run - so the exe isn't updated yet

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Btw - any reason why you are doing all the filtering etc as a dict? Any advantages over a DF?
I found it a bit slow the first time when I was trying locations with large availability (try Delhi State and Central Delhi District)

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I have updated the exe.

Just using list of dict comprehension because its simple. There isn't enough data/filtering to justify bringing in another package, like say Pandas, and its sub-dependencies.

Also, slowness is probably due to the delay in getting a response from the Co-WIN API.

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I looked into the slowness in areas with large availability - and you were right, the issue was in code. I have fixed it. Thank you for highlighting it.

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Thanks for looking into this - it has definitely sped up.
I could see the JSON being generated - and could narrow it down to the display function - but couldn't get further on it (my python skills are fairly limited - more towards data wrangling).

I was looking at taking location as an input, and sorting vaccination centers by distance. After making all the code changes, it turns out that somehow the API response that is coming in is providing the latitude and longitude of the vaccination center as an int - defeats the purpose largely.

But on API Setu, the sample response has the decimals for the lat long. Do you think this is an eccentricity of the requests package / python? Or is it a flaw in the API response itself? I tried playing around with Postman, but couldn't get it to work, to see the actual response.

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The issue is not with Python. Although API documentation says it would return a float, its actually giving an int. You can use Network tab in Developer Mode in the browser (F12) to see the response, like below:

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I thought of doing that kind of sorting using pincodes and some API to get the distance between pincodes. Couldn't find any free APIs that would give that info.

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Thanks for the PIN Code idea.. Turns out, it was quite simple. I found a dataset online, that mapped Pin Codes to Lat Longs. So used that to plug in the center lat longs. I have also left in an if condition, so that in case they ever correct the response to floats, then it will start picking those instead.

Still not able to get pyinstaller to run. Also, with pyinstaller, you might need to change the data source to directly pulling from github or something, for the pin code map

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I too had tried geocodes. To verify that it has the correct coordinates against the pincodes, I tried looking up for pincodes in my area. Found that most locations were off by kilometers.

Are they displaying the locations correctly for you?

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