Züri Trash Bot

Züri Trash Bot is a Telegram bot, which offers a convenient way to query paper 📰 and cardboard 📦 collection dates for people living in Zurich. The bot also support querying dates 📆 for the next cargo tram and E-tram 🚋.

Usage

Visit https://t.me/zh_trashbot or use @zh_trashbot directly from within Telegram.

Deployment

You don't need to deploy the bot to use it. For using the bot, just follow the link above. If - for whatever reason - you want to deploy (a copy of) this bot, you will need to:

• clone this repository,
• create a virtual environment (use python 3.6 or later),
• install the dependencies (into your virtual environment): pip install -r requirements.txt,
• copy config.ini.example to config.ini, get a Telegram bot token and configure it in config.ini,
• run python trashbot.py from within the src/ folder (or submit a PR to fix the fact that we currently have a hard-coded relative path to the config file)