Video Demo: Covaccine
This is my final project for Harvard CS50x course. It is a flask based web application to spread awareness on COVID-19 vaccination. As India is going through an intense COVID-19 second wave, awareness regarding vaccination and available resources is the need of the hour. The implementation of the website is fairly simple based on the following technologies.
- Python
- JS/ jquery
- HTML/CSS
- Bootstrap libraries
- sqlite3
- CS50 library
- werkzeug
- Flask
- jinja2
- other libraries and packages
The website home page has various resources and information regarding COVID-19 vaccination. The user can Login/Register to the website to maintain their profile where many new resouces are available like real-time API COVID tracker update, nearest vaccination centres, donation, profile updates along with much more.
Different routes have different criterias for access. Few of them require the user to login and uses session id to autheticate details and access database.
All user data in stored in covaccine.db which has multiple related tables. It is access using sqlite3 and CS50 library.
To run the application we need to generate an API first on Rapid API which is used to access real-time COVID-19 data.
To run the web application use these commands:
$ export API_KEY= enter your api key
$ export FLASK_APP=application.py
$ flask run
The scope of development is there in any project and in this one too. We can add the following features to make the website more user-friendly:
- Linking payment gateways to make donation feature more useful.
- Making user profile more friendly to add avatar and save resources.
- Adding real-time informaion on more resouces like COVID-19 hospitals, bed availability, etc.
- Using NewsAPI to provide embedded live news instead of redirect to google news.