Trainwala-bot-zulip

A live train PNR app that gives information about bookings and confirmations of train

Setup

Run the following commands from Your root directory

Step 1

https://github.com/spielers/Trainwala-bot-zulip.git /* To clone this repository */

cd Trainwala-bot-zulip /* To Navigate to the cloned repo */

git clone https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git /* To installling zulip environment */

cd python-zulip-api - navigate into your cloned repository.

python3 ./tools/provision - install all requirements in a Python virtualenv.

The output of provision will end with a command of the form source .../activate; run that command to enter the new virtualenv.

Step 2

Go to your Zulip account and add a bot. Use Generic bot as the bot type.

Download the bot's zuliprc configuration file to your computer.

Download the zulip_bots Python package to your computer using pip3 install zulip_bots.

step 3

Install all the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt

In bot.py file replace the site in self.client = zulip.Client(site="https://yourbot.zulipchat.com/api/") to url of your created zulip realm. Do the same for BOT_MAIL variable add the name that you set before.

python3 bot.py to run the bot

To Start the bot process on your computer.

Run zulip-run-bot <bot-name> --config-file ~/path/to/zuliprc here replace bot name with the generic bot that you created in zulip application above and give the correct path to the zulpric that you have downloaded.