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London bus stops Amazon Alexa skill

This skill allows users to get updates about buses coming to saved bus stop in London

Skill is available at Amazon Alexa Store for free

Service is Powered by TfL Open Data

How to use it?

Say

Alexa ask bus stop for update

To get updates about busses coming to saved bus stop

Say

Alexa ask bus stop for setup

To configure skill. You'll be required to find 5 digit bus stop number either from plate at bus stop or online on TfL website. Unfortunatelly I couldn't find simpler way to configure it. If you have suggestions please open an issue or make PR

Where to get dataset?

Please follow these links and use oneliner provided below to filter out London bus stops and generate dataset recognized by application

• GTFS dataset
• Direct link for dataset

	echo "stop_id\tstop_code\tstop_name\tstop_lat\tstop_lon\tstop_url\tvehicle_type" > LondonStops.tsv
	egrep "^49" Stops.txt  >> LondonStops.tsv

Dependencies

• Python 3.5, sudo apt-get install python3.5 python3-setuptools python3.5-dev build-essential
• (inside virtualenv) pip install flask flask-ask encodings requests