Give new members a current BART service briefing
Bring today's BART advisory picture into your group's welcome flow.
Trigger
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
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
New members may arrive during a disruption and miss important service context already known to the group.
- Creates a timely service summary as part of the group's onboarding.
- Helps newcomers see current system or station-level alerts.
- Reduces the need for a moderator to remember a separate advisory check.
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 tell Notis to check BART advisories when a member joins the transit group.
- 3Write one plain-language instruction identifying the group's stations or system-wide focus and requesting a brief relevant summary.
- 4Select Telegram New Chat Member as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a real join event and review whether the group context is specific enough.
Questions about this workflow
Are advisories specific to the new member?
They are based on the stations or system context provided in the automation instruction, not personal travel data.
Can I limit the result to important alerts?
Ask Notis in the instruction to summarize only advisories likely to affect the group's specified stations or travel.
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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.
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Webhook trigger
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New Message Received
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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.
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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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