This projects creats a Telegram bot, written in Go that receives one or multiple airport identifiers (4-letter ICAO or 3-letter IATA), separated by comma or space and returns current (METAR) and forecasted weather (TAF) for the requested airports.
It uses NOAA Aviation Weather Center's Text Data Server to retrieve data. Requests require ICAO airport code. Default interval for METAR/TAF is 12 hours, but can be overriden by providing NOAA_INTERVAL environmental variable.
It also provides a JSON file (airports.json), which has been created with data from OpenFlights. It stores a large majority of worldwide airports and it is used to lookup ICAO and IATA codes as required.
In order to make use of Telegram, a bot needs to be created and token passed as an environmental variable. By default it uses the updates method of retrieving requests, however if both WEBHOOK_URL and WEBHOOK_PORT environmental variables are set, it will utilise the webhook.
Can be run as a CLI program:
$ TELEGRAM_TOKEN={insert Telegram bot token} ./AvWxTelegramBot
Easier way to run it is as a Docker container through docker-compose. An example of docker-compose.yml file:
---
version: "3.4"
services:
avwxtelegrambot:
container_name: avwxtelegrambot
image: avwxtelegrambot:latest
build: .
environment:
- TELEGRAM_TOKEN=insert_telegram_bot_token
- NOAA_INTERVAL=12 # optional
- WEBHOOK_URL=https://my.server.com # optional
- WEBHOOK_PORT=443 # optional
restart: unless-stopped
Usage:
$ git clone https://github.com/FileGo/AvWxTelegramBot.git
$ cd AvWxTelegramBot
$ docker-compose up -d
Project makes use of the following libraries:
- https://github.com/yanzay/tbot (Go library for Telegram Bot)