Telegram Bot that serves bus stops and real-time estimated time of arrival for the buses of the city of Vigo.

Bot de Telegram que permite consultar las paradas y autobuses que se dirigen a las mismas -junto a su tiempo restante de llegada, en tiempo real-, en la red de transporte urbano de la ciudad de Vigo.

• VigoBusTelegramBot: this project, serving as the Telegram Bot backend, and connecting to the following API:
• VigoBusAPI: REST API to fetch stop & real-time estimated time of buses arrival
• Persistence API: REST API to persist data
• MongoDB: used by both REST API to persist data - and for bot requests logs persistence

• Python >= 3.9
• VigoBusAPI
• DataManager (Persistence API)
• requirements listed in requirements.txt
• A Telegram bot created with BotFather
  • For Inline mode: enable Inline Mode and set Inline Feedback to 100% on Bot Settings
• A MongoDB database (for both required API - and requests log persistence)

• Docker recommended for deployment using the Docker Python Git App image
• Refer to docker-compose.yml file to deploy all the required services (deploying as-is requires Docker Compose >= 1.27.4)

• 2.6.0
  • update deprecated Stop messages with a warning
  • include calculated arrival time (HH:MM) on buses
  • avoid logging warnings on 404 HTTP responses
  • allow loading settings from an arbitrary env file specified by the ENV_FILE env var
  • upgrade requirements versions
• 2.5.1
  • fix error handling for HTTP timeouts
  • return the request id on error messages (only normal messages, not inline replies)
  • support for self-hosted Telegram Bot API
• 2.5.0
  • allow searching stops by name without command
  • upgrade requirements versions
  • refactor deployment docker-compose example
• 2.4.1
  • fix wrong characters from API responses due to bad encoding (switch from json.loads(response.text) to response.json())
  • fix/improve request error handling: log exceptions, improve logging
• 2.4.0
  • search stop by id through inline mode
  • limit stop search results to 50 (Telegram Bot API limit for inline query results)
• 2.3.0
  • add request logs persistence in MongoDB
• 2.2.0
  • search stops by name (command & inline mode)
• 2.1.0
  • send bot commands list to Telegram programmatically
  • improve logging
• 2.0.2
  • delete original message with ForceReply markup after user sends its Feedback message
• 2.0.1
  • refactor message generators
  • refactor HTTP requester functions, merging in one service
• 2.0.0
  • refactor Telegram Bot request services/helpers
• 1.2.1
  • remove dotenv-settings-handler in favor of pydantic only
• 1.2.0
  • add one-way feedback communication system (adding "admin_userid" setting)
  • fix error when renaming stop after forcereply timeout (TTL)
  • rename Telegram setting "stop_rename_request_ttl" to "force_reply_ttl"
• 1.1.1
  • fix encoding on extracted user data (saved stops) on JSON file
• 1.1.0
  • extract user data (saved stops) into JSON file
  • delete all persisted user data (saved stops)
  • change Markdown for HTML, to avoid errors when including markdown characters in text (such as underscore)
• 1.0.0
  • (breaking change @ Mongo/Persistence API) encode/decode saved user stop data into/from Persistence API
  • fix "task exception was never retrieved" warning on aiogram error handler
  • add support for loading bot token from a secrets file
  • add request id as part of the logging context
  • fix stop remove name
  • remove usage of external pybusent library in favor of self-defined classes
  • sort user saved stops by stop custom or real name
  • fix stop rename failing
• 0.1.6
  • add logging
• 0.1.5:
  • fix stop rename crashing
  • add error handler for uncatched global, generic exceptions
  • switch from requests_async to httpx
  • add retries on HTTP requests
  • add user request rate limit (amount per time)
• 0.1.4
  • button on Stop messages to show More/Less buses
• 0.1.3
  • support for setting custom stop names on user saved stops
• 0.1.2
  • support for Saved Stops and working command to list all of them
• 0.1.1
  • inline keyboard markup with callback support for Refreshing Stop messages
• 0.1.0
  • initial async version (basic Get Stop messages)

This project is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained by, sponsored by or in any way officially related with the company, companies and/or entities responsible for the public transport service of the city of Vigo.

Este proyecto no cuenta con soporte de, no está afiliado con, mantenido por, patrocinado por ni en cualquier otra manera oficialmente vinculado con la compañía, compañías y/o entidades responsables del sistema de transporte público de la ciudad de Vigo.