GitHub - nikosklms/FareBot: A self-hosted Telegram bot that finds the cheapest flights, tracks fares, and alerts you when prices drop—so you can spend less time searching and more time planning your next trip.
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A self-hosted Telegram bot that finds the cheapest flights, tracks fares, and alerts you when prices drop—so you can spend less time searching and more time planning your next trip. - nikosklms/Far...

I built this because I kept checking Google Flights every day for the same routes. FareBot is a Telegram bot you host yourself that does it for you and your friends.

Runs with Docker, no API key needed. It’s meant for you and a few friends: anyone else who messages it sends you an access request.

One I found with it: Budapest to Venice for €17, 83% below usual:

demo

Limitations: Google Flights has no public API, so if Google changes the page it breaks until I update the parser. One-way flights only for now.

Feedback welcome!

  • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    I rarely fly and don’t use Telegram (is that the one controlled by a Russian emigre?) but I love the idea of something like this for a platform I use (fedi, xmpp, nextcloud, even email) that let me easily define scrapers for things like high speed trains and hotels.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
      1·
      19 minutes ago

      I haven’t looked at the code yet but I imagine one could abstract away the Telegram stuff and make it compatible with a wide range of notification “adapters.” I myself would probably just use RSS.