README.md

COVID-Box

🦠 Update a gist to contain global or per country coronavirus stats

covid-box is a GitHub Action that is designed to work using the schedule event.

Setup

Prep work

1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/)
2. Create a personal access token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new)

Project setup

1. Fork this repository
2. Go to the repo Settings > Secrets
3. Add the following environment variables:
   • GH_PAT: The personal access token generated above.
   • GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url: https://gist.github.com/puf17640/f091f6edaca9b14d5a149983526feb63.
   • COUNTRY: Specify a country name to show country specific data, if omitted, Global data is shown.
4. Wait for it to update! 🎉

Credits

This project uses the covidapi npm package to get all the data from NovelCOVID API

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Inspired by JasonEtco/activity-box