ViteMaDose: the missing link in the vaccination campaign
summary
ViteMaDose is a March 2021 project that aggregated vaccine appointment links from nine different reservation platforms by combining open data and real‑time scraping, then served them via a static website and iOS/Android front ends to handle multi‑million traffic peaks. Engineering choices included starting with Python + Selenium scraping then moving to API‑style requests, and using precomputed 5‑minute batches to keep the site available while leaving actual booking consistency to the source platforms; it was open source, deployed on static pipelines, added push notifications, and measurably improved appointment discovery.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:52ViteMaDose presentation
- 7:03Project origins and timeline
- 16:07Volunteer organization
- 24:27Technical architecture
- 31:28Architecture pros and cons
- 40:17Project values and principles
- 43:24Conclusion
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