/freeHotelNotification

Primary LanguageJava

Is a room free?

A short program which informs me via telegram if a special hotel has free rooms.

Configuration

You need to provide some configurations. See Spring Boot Doc to find out how you can do that.

The import configurations are:

  • url - URL to check
  • botName - Your Telegram Bot name
  • botToken - Auth Token for your Telegram Bot
  • telegramChatId - Telegram Chat-ID

Check multiple URLs

If you decide to use application.properties you can add multiple profiles (eg application-test.properties = test profile). In this profile properties files you can overwrite the settings from your application.properties.

To use the profile add spring.profiles.active to the command: java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=test HotelChecker-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar or java -jar HotelChecker-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.profiles.active=test

Create your telegram bot

  1. Message @botfather https://telegram.me/botfather with the following text: /newbot If you don't know how to message by username, click the search field on your Telegram app and type @botfather, you should be able to initiate a conversation. Be careful not to send it to the wrong contact, because some users has similar usernames to botfather.

  2. @botfather replies with Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.

  3. Type whatever name you want for your bot.

  4. @botfather replies with Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.

  5. Type whatever username you want for your bot, minimum 5 characters, and must end with bot. For example: telesample_bot

  6. @botfather replies with:

    Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at telegram.me/telesample_bot. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands.

    Use this token to access the HTTP API: 123456789:AAG90e14-0f8-40183D-18491dDE

    For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

  7. Note down the 'token' mentioned above.

Get Chat Id

  1. Click on the link @botfather provides (e.g. telegram.me/telesample_bot).

  2. Send any text to the bot.

  3. Open https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates in your browser (note: replace <TOKEN> with your token (see step 7).

  4. In the response you will find the Chat Id