Telegram bot that shows the status of your favorite stations of Bicing, the Barcelona's public bike rental system.

Bicingbot is built with Python and uses the following libraries:

• Flask as HTTP server to publish the BicingBot API callbacks.
• Sqlite3 as database.
• Telegram python library to connect to Telegram.
• Bicing API to get Bicing Stations information

• Install Python3: https://www.python.org/ (tested with python 3.9)

• Create a new virtualenv called bicingbot:

$ cd VIRTUALENVS_PATH
$ python venv bicingbot

# If working with virtualenvwrapper
$ mkvirtualenv bicingbot

• Activate the virtualenv

# In Windows
$ source VIRTUALENVS_PATH/bicingbot/Scripts/activate

# In Mac
$ source VIRTUALENVS_PATH/bicingbot/bin/activate

# If working with virtualenvwrapper
$ workon bicingbot

• Install dependencies

(bicingbot)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run bicingbot server:

(bicingbot)$ python bicingbot/bicingbot_app.py

Now, the bot is listening on http://localhost:5000

• Install development dependencies

(bicingbot)$ pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

• Execute unit tests:

(bicingbot)$ pytest