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Answer BART station questions without leaving Telegram

Ask about a station in chat and bring its details into the conversation.

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 Station Info

Tool to fetch detailed information for a specified bart station. use after you have a station's abbreviation. (e.g., get station info for 'balb')

Why this helps

Looking up station details can derail a conversation when someone needs a quick travel answer.

  • Keeps quick station research in the discussion where it was requested.
  • Provides station details from Bart rather than relying on memory.
  • Makes it easier to share consistent station information with a group.

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 to answer Telegram questions about BART stations.
  • 3Write a single instruction to identify the station, confirm its abbreviation when needed, retrieve its details, and reply in the chat.
  • 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a run-report channel.
  • 5Test with a real station question, such as asking for details about a named station.

Questions about this workflow

Do I need to know the station code?

No. You can name the station and have Notis clarify or identify the abbreviation required for the lookup.

Can it answer about stations outside BART?

This workflow is for BART station information provided by the Bart integration.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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.

TriggerScheduled

Get BART API Version

Stub action for bart api version retrieval.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get BART Available Schedules

Tool to retrieve a list of currently released bart schedules. use when you need schedule versioning info.

ActionInstant

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.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

New Channel Post

Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.

TriggerInstant

Get BART Stations

Stub action for bart stations retrieval.

ActionInstant

Callback Query Received

Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.

TriggerInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Message Edited

Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.

TriggerInstant

Download GTFS Static Schedule Feed

Tool to download the static gtfs feed (google transit.zip). use when needing the latest gtfs schedule data.

ActionInstant

New Chat Member

Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.

TriggerInstant

Get BART Schedule Arrive

Tool to retrieve schedule information based on a specified arrival time. use when planning trips arriving by a given time.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Telegram and Bart, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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