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.

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nikosklms@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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!

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hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Did you use AI at all while working on this?

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- SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I guarantee it’s vibe coded slop.
  
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mjr@infosec.pub ⁨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.

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- undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨36⁩ ⁨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.
  
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besstiolle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would love to see this with some integration with simple http entrypoint. So we could manage notifications in a larger list of tools (with ntfy for example) without no complication for you 😉

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- besstiolle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, it’s seems like you don’t have any public front to manage the query in first place… So not a quick fix. 😆
  
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