A simple Telegram Bot that tells you the nearest car parking available in Turin city area (Italy), just by providing your current location.
The Bot is built with Node.js and Express, exposing a webhook to process the data sent by Telegram.
The car parking informations are available thanks to the Open Data provided by 5T, that "manages the Mobility and Infomobility Centre of the Torino metropolitan and Piedmontese area, as in-house company of the City of Torino and the Piemonte Regional Government".
The data are available in XML format from this open endpoint: https://opendata.5t.torino.it/get_pk
start: get the app up and runningtest: run all thejesttests availablelocaltunnel: open a proxy connection from localhost to alocal tunnelserver | https://localtunnel.github.io/www/server:dev: start the application with a proxy connection to alocal tunnelserver
This app uses environment variables stored in a file called .env: for security reasons, this file is not inside this repo and all the variables are injected during the build phase.
This is the structure of the file:
NAME=Torino Parking Bot
BASE_URL=https://torino-parking-bot.loca.lt
TOKEN=your-unique-telegram-token
The BASE_URL variable could be set with any reverse proxy like ngrok or local tunnel.
The bot is currently available on Telegram and you can find it using @torino_parking_bot username.