Telegram Bot Benzina

You can find this bot at: @prezzi_benzina_bot

Introduction

This project was born during the high fuel price rising in 2022. It was suggested by a friend of mine and I wanted to test myself into something really useful.

DISCLAIMER: As I'm not very sure about legal issues with using API to get fuel prices I decided to hide the url and headers content. BTW the API is public so it should technically be allowed to "scrape" the public data, at least for personal use.

The data I'm using are from Italian public OsservaPrezzi Carburanti website. This service is bound to the actual REAL fuel prices in Italy (as fuel pump owners are required to share current gas prices), so it's not using any community shared gas prices and data should always be up to date with the current gas prices

Installation and prerequisites

Simply get this repo by

git clone https://github.com/macvenez/telegram-bot-benzina.git

cd telegram-bot-benzina

Then you should create your personal _secret.py file that should just contain the following:

api_key=<Your telegram bot api-key>

You can get this from the BotFather Telegram's bot.
You can also just hardcode your apikey instead of including it externally

Dependencies

In order to use the bot you should have the following python packages:

• pyTelegramBot
• geopy
• aiohttp
• mysql.connector

You can get all these packages by (assuming you have python-pip):

pip install pyTelegramBotAPI aiohttp geopy mysql-connector

Running the bot

Now you can just run the bot with

python bot.py

Commands and usage

Actually there's only a command

• /start: Start the bot and choose fuel type and distance
  After selecting that you'll be asked to send your position, you can do that by using the "attach icon" 📎 and selecting Location 📌

Contributors and references

Fuel icons created by Freepik - Flaticon