census-bot

a Telegram bot for consulting the electoral census of Palma

Usage

With python virtualenv

• First make sure you have redis installed.
• Create a Python virtualenv and install the package requirements.
• Create a config.yml file with the config.yml.sample as a template.
• Run python3 main.py and the script will process any message received and return the census info.

With docker

• Create a config.yml file with the config.yml.sample as a template.
• First start your redis instance: docker run -d --name redis library/redis:3.2.0
• Run docker run --link redis:redis -e "REDIS_HOST=redis" -e "REDIS_PORT=6379" -v ${PWD}/config.yml:/code/config.yml joanfont/census-bot

Add your data providers

In config.yml file you can specify the census data providers' bot can use. You can add yours:

census:
  default: palma
  available:
    palma:
      name: Palma
      url: https://cens.joan-font.cat
    inca:
      name: Inca
      url: http://cens.incaciutat.com

The census data provider endpoint (/find?nif=44444444A) must return a response like this one:

{
    "address": "CA PABLO IGLESIAS  4 , 07004 PALMA",
    "district": ​3,
    "nif": "44444444A",
    "school": "COL.LEGI SANT RAFAEL",
    "section": ​2,
    "table": "A"
}

Disclaimer

This bot only makes requests to an API that provides census data. It does not have any relation with Ajuntament de Palma. The data is consulted in the Ajuntament de Palma census page. You can see the API's code in the following GitHub respository: electoral-census.