This project is my traffic robot. All it does is fetch traffic data from the Traffic England web site, filter out the bits I might be interesgted in, and then push the results to my phone via Pushover. I built this to scratch my own itch, and so it's really not a good example of anything. I'm putting it up here in the vague hope that I might actually do proper versioning on it, rather than having lots of files with a date in the filename. Do let me know if it's any use to you.
NB: There are many things hardwired into the code. I'm working on removing this stuff as I find it. Like I said, this is vaguely productionised version of something I built to be a MVP for me, and then welded a few other bits on. Sorry about that.
I use a library called chump to
do the actual talking to Pushover. It seems to fail occasionally, but
I don't know why. I should probably fix that.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| app-api-key.example | Your actual Pushover App API key goes in here |
| lastguid.example | The code stores the last GUID seen in a file called lastguid.txt to prevent duplicate alerts |
| trafficrobot-users.example | User details (user API keys and so on) stored in trafficrobot-users.txt to be used for alerts |
Further documentation is in the files themselves. NB: they should have
the extension .example replaced with .txt to run. Or you could edit
the get_fileloc function which does the mapping from internal reference
to file name. But I'd suggest putting the correct stuff in files called
something.txt, using the .example ones as templates.
See the instuctions at the Pushover website for more information on how to configure Pushover for your requirements. It is not a free service, but for individuals you can just buy the app on whatever platform you want, and it's then free to use after that. See their pricing page for details.
Chump is also on github here. It needs two keys to use, which you can get from Pushover. I've removed my API keys from this version - you'll need to substitute yours to make it work for you.
I have had some problems with Chump, but then I haven't tested against the latest version, so I should probably do that.
See
the instructions in that project
for information on how to set up Chump if pip install chump doesn't
work for you.