Covid-19 United Kingdom Tracker

About The Project

Bitbar Plugin to track Covid-19 cases in the United Kingdom from the MacOS menu bar.

Built with:

1. Installing BitBar

There are two ways to install BitBar on your Mac:

Use Homebrew: brew cask install bitbar.
Or download .app file directly: Get the latest version of BitBar. Then copy it to your Applications folder and run it - it will ask you to (create and) select a plugins folder, do so.

2. Installing Python

Install Python by following the instructions here.
Make sure your node exec resides in usr/local/bin/node, else you will have to update the path in the script.

3. Installing requests with pip

Run sudo -H pip install requests --upgrade to install the latest version of the requests module

4. Saving this script

Download the script on your local machine. Make sure you place this file in the same plugin folder which you created while installing Bitbar.
Go to the plugin folder and run chmod +x covid-19-uk-tracker.py
Refresh Bitbar.