Check BART alerts from your Telegram trip chat
Bring current BART advisories into the conversation as soon as a trip is mentioned.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Get Service Advisories
Tool to fetch current bart service advisories. use when you need up-to-date system-wide or station-level alerts before presenting or planning transit routes.
Why this helps
Remembering to check for service changes adds another task to an already busy departure routine.
- Adds an advisory check to the moment a trip is discussed.
- Helps you notice system or station alerts before leaving.
- Keeps the result beside the original travel plan.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Bart to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally to check BART service when trip plans are mentioned.
- 3Give one plain-language instruction to look up current advisories and summarize any that may affect the stated stations or trip.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received and choose where Notis should report automation runs.
- 5Test with a real Telegram message naming a planned BART trip.
Questions about this workflow
Does it check live advisories?
Yes. The Bart service advisories action fetches current advisories when the automation runs.
Will it determine whether every alert affects my trip?
It can compare available advisory details with the stations or route you mention and explain uncertainty when relevance is unclear.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Bart. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Bart actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get BART API Version
Stub action for bart api version retrieval.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get BART Available Schedules
Tool to retrieve a list of currently released bart schedules. use when you need schedule versioning info.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Get Route Info
Tool to fetch detailed information about a specific bart route. use when you know the route number (1–12) or need all routes configuration. call after confirming the route id.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get BART Stations
Stub action for bart stations retrieval.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get GTFS-RT Trip Updates
Tool to fetch real-time trip updates in gtfs-realtime format. use when you need the latest live trip information as raw protobuf.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Download GTFS Static Schedule Feed
Tool to download the static gtfs feed (google transit.zip). use when needing the latest gtfs schedule data.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Get BART Schedule Arrive
Tool to retrieve schedule information based on a specified arrival time. use when planning trips arriving by a given time.
Get BART Schedule Depart
Tool to get schedule information based on a specified depart time. use when planning trips from an origin to a destination with time constraints after confirming station codes.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Bart, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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