dahmetal.js

dahmetal.js

A microservice to check whether Dahmetal bus traffic is affected by a strike.

Dahmetal is a local traffic enterprise operating in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. In September 2015, it has been affected by strikes on seemingly random days. This has annoyed a lot of people who depend on its busses, and has led to the creation of this project.

This project is a Walking Skeleton under development by Mark Tiedemann. The idea is to create a microservice to let users know whether a strike is happening. To determine this, the Dahmetal website is fetched and parsed.

A web app is currently under development as well. To notify mobile clients about upcoming strikes, Push Notifications via Google Cloud Messaging will be used.

Quickstart

To install the service, run:

npm install dahmetal.js

To start the service, run:

npm start -- <port>

To stop the service, run:

npm stop

To test the service, run:

npm test

To use the service, send a HTTP GET request; the response will look like this:

status: 200
body:
{
  "available": true, // true if the Dahmetal website can be reached, else false
  "striking": true // true if a strike is announced on the website, else false
}

License

The MIT License (MIT) as found in LICENSE.md.

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