LighthouseBot

A telegram bot to find the nearest lighthouse. You will be asked to choose the country and state and then your location. Bot will then send you the location of the lighthouse nearest to you. Currently supported Kerala/India only.

How to setup:

• Download or pull this source code to the desired path.

• Move to the root directory of this codebase. (To Where the script lighhouse_bot.py is).

• Create a virtual environment and activate it, if required.

  $ python -m venv /DESIRED/PATH/TO/YOUR/VENV
  $ source /DESIRED/PATH/TO/YOUR/VENV/bin/activate

• Install the dependencies:

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a .env file there with the following content:

  TELEGRAM_TOKEN="REPLACE_THIS_STRING_WITH_YOUR_ACTUAL_TOKEN"

• Create a .data directory and copy data files, lighthouses.json and countries.json, there.

• Run the script, lighthouse_bot.py now:

  $ python lighthouse_bot.py