Flight Tracker

Project Description

It is a command-line utility and slack bot developed in python where user can either run it using command line or can run /slash commands by deploying it. This project uses OpenSky REST API and Paytm Flight API.

Installation

• Command-line

1. Clone the repository and navigate to flight-tracker directory.

git clone https://github.com/vipin0/filght-tracker.git

2. Install the required dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run it as a command-line application.

python flight_tracker.py -a 'LKO'

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• As a server for slack

1. Clone the repository and navigate to flight-tracker directory.

git clone https://github.com/vipin0/filght-tracker.git

2. Install the required dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. It's takes the following environment variables, create a file .env with the content of .env.sample.

SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=your-bot-token
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=your-signing-secret
PORT=4444

4. Start the development server.

python slack_bot.py

Usage

• For Slack_Bot

Available /[slash]commands

• /get_flights origin_code destination_code [YYYY-MM-DD] [no_passengers] [travel_class]

This command list all the flights between given airports on gievn date.

You must provide origin airport code and destination airport code.
Default search date to today's date.
Default no_passengers is 1
Default travel_class is 'E' or you can use 'B'.

• /list_arrivals airport_code [begintime] [endtime]

This list all the flights arriving on the given airports.

• /list_departures airport_code [begintime] [endtime]

This list all the flights departing from the given airports.

• /help

This command show the help menu for the bot.

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• For command-line

Usage: 

 $ python flight_tracker.py [OPTIONS] AIRPORT_CODE

 Options:
 -a, --arrival           list the arriving airplanes to the given airport.
 -d, --depart            list the depaturting airplanes from the given
                         airport.
 -b, --begin [%Y-%m-%d]  starting date in Y-m-d i.e. 2021-12-12
 -e, --end [%Y-%m-%d]    ending date in Y-m-d i.e. 2021-12-12
 --help                  Show this message and exit.

CLI Reference

By default the script show all the airplanes within the time interval of last 24 hours.

Changing time interval

Use -b/--begin or -e/--end for changing date.

Example

$ python flight_tracker.py -a LKO -b 2021-10-30 -e 2021-11-02

or

$ python flight_tracker.py -a LKO --begin 2021-10-30 --end 2021-11-02

Arrivals

Use -a or --arrival flag to list all the arriving airplanes.

Example

$ python flight_tracker.py -a LKO

Departures

Use -a or --arrival flag to list all the departing airplanes.

Example

$ python flight_tracker.py -d LKO

Dependencies

This project is uses the following third-party dependencies.

slackclient
slackeventsapi
flask
requests
click
tabulate

Testcases

To run the testcases run the following.

pytest test_flight.py

Sample outputs

Arrivals

Departures

Testcase