A simple Telegram bot that collects information from the Trafikverket Open API about deviations on the Swedish railroad network.

Why?

Why not.

You need an APIkey from the Trafikverket Open API which can be obtained by creating an account at: https://data.trafikverket.se/oauth2/Account/register

A Telegram bot APIkey is required for the bot to work properly, this can be obtained by creating a bot on Telegram. You also need to find the signed integer representing the channel you wish to send messages to.

To run this program you need at least Go version 1.22. You also need to create a json-config file in config/config.json that should look like this:

{
      "Telegram": {
		"tgAPIkey": "xxx",
		"tgChannel": "xxx"
	},
	"TrafikverketAPIKey": "xxx"
      "County": [0]
}

If you want to filter the output and only send updates for specific counties, add those to the list, thr default is 0, meaning all counties are announced. A list of all counties can be found in the map CountyMap in apipoller.go.

To keep track of updates it's recommended to use for example crontab to run the program once every fifth minute.

go run trafikverket.go

If you want to specify a location for the config file, start with:

go run trafikverket.go -config-file /path

  -config-file string
        Absolute path for config-file (default "./config/config.json")
  -debug
        Turns on debug for telegram
  -stdout
        Turns on stdout rather than sending to telegram
  -telegram-test
        Sends a test message to configured telegram channel

• Add support for other file location for config-file
• Fix update function posting updates to ongoing events
• Fix deletion when ongoing event are cleared
• Document and clean up code
• Add function for bulk station lookup function
• Fix affected stations print
• Change to html when sent to Telegram for support of embedded images
• Add county filter in config