This repo has the source code of a robot that helps me during the week. Some times I just want to know if it is better go to the office by car or subway, or just know the name of the current street (Im really bad to remember streets names) and if it is necessary to close my apartment windows (my cat doesnt like to be inside the house all day long..). So, in order to help me with this small questions during my day, I implemented this robot that gets some information for me.
For now, I have implemented following commands:
/metro- Sends information about the Sao Paulo subway (metro)/cptm- Sends information about trains lines in Sao Paulo (cptm)/weather- Sends information about rain probability and weather summary/gohome- Check the distance and duration between home and work (master only)/gowork- Check the distance and duration between work and home (master (only)/letsgo- Start a small talk with Marvin to get distance and location from or to your location/done- Stops conversation with Marvin
If you want to have this robot working for you, first step is to get your
robot from the BotFather (see below links). After getting all the tokens you
need to create a file, called config.ini with the following content:
[Telegram]
Token: <Your Telegram API Token Here>
[GoogleMaps]
Token: <Your Google Developer API here>
Home: <House Address Here>
Work: <Your Work Address Here>
[Subway]
metro: https://direto-do-metro.appspot.com/dftm
cptm: https://direto-da-cptm.appspot.com/dftc
[Weather]
Token: <Your Weather API here -
Home_coordinates: <lat and long of your house - comma separated>
Work_coordinates: <lat and long of your work - comma separated>
Anyway, if you want to use this robot, you can add it to your telegram contacts, his name is @Marvin. But let me aware you... hes is kind of rude.
If you have never implemented a Telegram Bot, please, start reading this page . It has the procedure to create the Token and all necessary steps to start coding your own bot.
Google has a very good API to be used by developers. This bot uses this API to get google traffic information. Please go to the following link to get your Token!
Finally, to get data about weather I used the Dark Sky API. In order to use it, you should have a Token. Check the following link to receive the Token.
Well.. I know that the coding is not good yet. Probably in next months I'll be refactoring the code, and probably will change how some commands works. Also, I'll implement some kind of alerts.. (Working on it.. don't rush me.)
Remember.. this bot is open source, if you want to clone it or use it as code example to learn how to code a Telegram Bot.. Go Ahead!