Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: covid-dashboard-jadam
Version: 0.0.1
Summary: A dashboard to display up to date covid data and news
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: James Adam
Author-email: ja669@exeter.ac.uk
License: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Python: >=3.9

## README
### Introduction
This project aims to provide a simple, personalisable dashboard for Covid data and news. Users can schedule updates to the data and news stories on top of those that already automatically occur. They can also customise what area they receive Covid data for to, as well as what sort of news they receive.
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#### Prerequisites
Designed for Python 3.9
Sched and Flask modules
Public Health England Covid data API module
News Api module and **key** - can be gotten for free from https://newsapi.org/register
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### Installation

pip install schedule
pip install Flask
pip install uk-covid19
pip install NewsApi
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### Getting started
Firstly you must open the config file and put your API key in for /key/. Next run main.py, this will start the server. The dashboard can now be accessed at http://127.0.0.1:5000/index.
In order to change where Covid data is shown for, or what keywords are used to filter news stories, change the relevant lines in the config file
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### Developer documentation

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Author - James Adam


