SkiBot

About The Project

For snowboarders, we always hope to know some data about ski resorts, such as the amount of snowfall, the opening date, the ticket prices. For our convenience, I created a chatbot named SkiBot for querying those data with user messages in real-time. As you can see as follows:

Here's the functionality that SkiBot has:

• Query the real-time forecast weather data in a particular ski resort on a particular date. The forecast data supports the future five days from now on. The weather feature includes:

* weather - (desciption)
* snowfall - (inch)
* rainfall - (inch)
* visibility - (mile)
* Humidity Level - (%)
* Temperature - (F)
* Wind Speed - (mph)

• Quering the real-time operating data in a particular ski resort. The operating feature includes:

* status - (currently open / closed)
* open date - (open date)
* close date - (closed date)
* number of lifts - (number of lifts)
* ticket price - (including adult, youth and child prices)
* rating - (the rating of the resort)
* location

Built With

• Telegram Bot API
• Ski Resort API
• Python Request Library
• Python Datetime Library
• Python Urllib.request Library
• Python Dateutil.parser Library
• Python Web Scraping

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python @3.10 requests telegram bot api urllib dateutil

pip install requests
pip install python-telegram-bot
pip install urllib3
pip install dateutils

Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Kaicheng1995/SkiBot

2. Run the program

python main.py

3. Open SkiBot

open Telegram App and search the account "@proj_skibot", add it

4. Start to talk

type "/help" to get instructions and start to talk

Acknowledgments

• SkiResort.info
• Python Web Scraping
• Python API Tutorial