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Covid19-InstaBot

The Bot posts the live corona virus cases in each state in India to Instagram account. The post also includes captions in 10 different languages

The captions include total cases, active cases, recovered and deaths. The post is optimized with hashtags which are most trending in india and related to covid19.

API used for covid stats

https://api.covid19india.org/data.json

Template used

Languages

english, hindi, gujarati, marthi, tamil, malayalam, kannada, bengali and telugu.

Captions

Get latest stats of covid19 on @covid.ai. Maintain social distancing and stay quarantined.
Source : covid19india.org
Statistics in India
Confirmed: 29689
Active: 215689
Recovered: 7181
Deaths: 940
(Trending hashtags)

Post on Insta

How to post on Instagram

Setup

pip install -r requirements.txt

Posting

python bot.py username password lang

where username and password are your instagram account password.
lang represents the language of captions from keywords here

For automatic posting

Use crontab for scheduling the posts eg at every 11 am

crontab -e
(add this line at last) 

0 11 * * * cd /home/covid19/covid19-instabot && . env/bin/activate && python bot.py

Note - Dont try to post more frequently, it may block your account

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Instagram Bot to provide statistics of the coronavirus outbreak in India to instagram account by posting. Includes multilingual captions.

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