cowin telegram bot

This is my first ever project with Telegram bots and it was worth the effort. Try it out if you are on telegram !!!

What I learnt from this project

1. Telegram bots are fun and reduces the need to design a web front-end for mobile focused projects.
2. Google Cloud Platform is the perfect place to host cloud based mobile applications. GCP is cheap, easy to learn, and supports most development platforms. This bot is built with Python and lives on GCP.
3. I learnt the basics of Compute Engine, App Engine, serverless app deployments and python telegram integration.
4. Although Govt of India provides many APIs as per the OpenAPI specifications, there are still a lot of restrictions. All Cowin APIs are geo-fenced and can only be accessed from Indian IPs. Why would someone do that when we are moving to cloud based solutions and major providers have data centers located in US or EU ?

Check out the bot here ...