Seat Stalker

Application for notifying about free seats in popular restaurants. Uses telegram to send notifications.

TODO

• Actual logic to check for seats and send notifications accordingly
• Format sent telegram messages nicely
• CI Pipeline to delpoy as scheduled Azure Function
• Terraform to manage infrastructure
• Combine multiple free seats together in one message
• Persist sent notications about seats so notification about the same seat wont be sent multiple times
• Support adding new alerts via Telegram bot API?
• New integrations
  • Dinnerbooking.com

Development enviornment

The application could be run locally either using SBT or Azure Functions Core Tools. Both approaches require Telegram configuration in order to send notifications.

SBT

1. Create .env file to the root folder of the project and add the following configuration in it

   telegram_chatId=<chat-id>
   telegram_token=<token>
   

2. Start SBT and run run command

Azure Functions

1. Install Azure Functions Core Tools (v4)

2. Start local blob storage emulator by running docker-compose up

3. Package the project into a jar file by running sbt assembly

4. Navigate to azure-functions folder

5. Create configuration file local.settings.json and add the following configuration:

   {
   	"IsEncrypted": false,
   	"Values": {
   		"AzureWebJobsStorage": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http;AccountName=devstoreaccount1;AccountKey=Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==;BlobEndpoint=http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1;",
   		"FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "java",
   		"telegram_chatId": "<chat-id>",
   		"telegram_token": "<token>"
   	}
   }

6. Run func start