✈️ Travel agent bot
This bot will help you organise and plan your travels.
Link: @itq_travel_agent_bot
ER Diagram
⚙️ Technologies
Python
Python is used successfully in thousands of real-world business applications around the world, including many large and mission critical systems.Service to easily build routes between points on map. User sees we Version: 3.12
aiogram
aiogram is a modern and fully asynchronous framework for Telegram Bot API using asyncio and aiohttp. Version: 3.4
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language. Version: 2
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
In project used as the main database. Version: 16.2
Redis
The in-memory data store used by millions of developers as a cache, vector database, document database, streaming engine, and message broker.
In project redis used as storage for states. Version: 7.2
🤝 Integrations
OpenStreetMap API
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
In the project, the interaction with OpenStreetMap API is implemented using geopy lib.
GraphHopper
Service for conveniently building routes between points on the map. The user can view the route of a trip through webview that appears when clicking on the inline button.
OpenTripMap API
This API used to get nearby sights for location.
Open Weather Map API
API to easily get current weather in specified location.
🖥️ Demonstration
Registration
The first step is, of cource, registration. User needs to fill in some information about himself before using the bot:
- Username* - used to indeficate users and for interacting between users.
- Age* - age of user
- Sex*
- Bio - Short info about yourself
- Location* - City and country where user lives
- Date joined - Fills automaticly
* - required
Profile
User can edit and view it's profile anytime.
Travels creation and editing
User can create, view, edit and delete travel:
- Title* - title of travel, ex: Anapa 2010
- Description - description of travel, could be None
* - required
Locations creation and editing
User can create and delete locations
- Location*
- Date start* - Start of an activity in location(in UTC)
- Date end* - End of an activity in location(in UTC)
* - required
Planning routes
User can plan routes between locations he specified
Notes creation and editing
User can create note(it could be file or photo) and edit it
Getting nearby sights and weather of location
User can get location nearby sights(in 2 km radius) and get detailed description of sight. Alsoo user can get current weather in location
There are also lots of small features and cool things that could be discovered while using the bot
🛠️ Local development & testing
Clone repository with git
git clone https://github.com/Central-University-IT-prod/backend-devitq.git
Navigate to the project directory
cd backend-devitq
Create virtual enviroment & activate it
Windows
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
Linux
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Install dev requirements
pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
Setup .env file
Windows
copy template.env .env
Linux
cp template.env .env
And replace all default values with actual values
Generate new migrations(if needed)
alembic -c app/alembic.ini revision --autogenerate
Apply migrations with alembic
alembic -c app/alembic.ini upgrade head
Run bot in development mode
python -m app
🚀 Deploying
Our app uses docker compose for production deployment.
Structure:
travel_agent /
postgres (starts at 5432 port in your local network)
redis (starts at 6379 port in your local network)
app
pgadmin (starts at 5050 port in your local network)
Clone repository with git
git clone https://github.com/Central-University-IT-prod/backend-devitq.git
Navigate to the project directory
cd backend-devitq
Setup .env file
Windows
copy template.env .env
Linux
cp template.env .env
And replace all default values with actual values
Pull actual docker images
docker compose pull
Start containers (in detached mode)
docker compose up -d --build
📝 Notes
I thought up the architecture of the project myself, I won't mind feedback on it)








