Daily Blackout Check

Checks the official SAAPA planned-outage API and sends Persian notifications to an Eitaa chat when an outage is added, changed, cancelled, or restored.

The checker is designed for an hourly Gitea Actions workflow. Its deduplication state is stored in state/outages.json and committed back to this repository.

Behavior

• Queries each configured bill ID from today through five days ahead.
• Uses Tehran time regardless of the runner container's timezone.
• Sends all upcoming outages when starting with empty state.
• Treats an existing outage number with changed time, address, date, reason, or planned status as an update.
• Reports a future outage as cancelled only after two consecutive successful checks omit it.
• Records a notification only after Eitaa accepts it. This favors delivery over perfect deduplication: a failed state push can cause a duplicate next hour.
• Rejects malformed responses and snapshots larger than the configured safety limit without changing that bill's state.

Local setup

Python 3.11 or newer is required. CI uses Python 3.13.

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -e '.[test]'
cp .env.example .env

Fill in the required values in .env, then preview the next run without sending messages or changing state:

python -m blackout_notifier check --dry-run

Run the live checker with:

python -m blackout_notifier check

Configuration

Variable	Required	Default	Purpose
BARGHEMAN_TOKEN	Yes	—	SAAPA bearer token
EITAAYAR_TOKEN	Yes	—	EitaaYar bot token
CHAT_ID	Yes	—	Destination Eitaa chat
BILL_IDS	Yes	—	Comma-separated decimal bill IDs
STATE_FILE	No	state/outages.json	Durable notification state
LOOKAHEAD_DAYS	No	5	Query horizon, from 1 to 30 days
REQUEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS	No	15	HTTP timeout, from 1 to 120 seconds
MAX_EVENTS_PER_BILL	No	25	Response safety limit, from 1 to 100

Shell and Gitea-provided variables take precedence over .env.

Gitea deployment

This repository targets Gitea 1.25.x and a Docker-based runner advertising the ubuntu-latest label. The runner needs outbound access to the Gitea instance, gitea.com, PyPI, SAAPA, and EitaaYar.

1. Enable Actions in the repository settings.
2. Confirm an online runner advertises ubuntu-latest.
3. Add these repository Actions secrets: BARGHEMAN_TOKEN, EITAAYAR_TOKEN, CHAT_ID, and BILL_IDS.
4. Run the test workflow manually.
5. Run Hourly blackout check manually once and inspect the notification and resulting state commit.
6. Leave the @hourly schedule enabled.

The workflow uses fully qualified https://gitea.com/actions/... actions rather than resolving actions through GitHub. Gitea 1.25 ignores workflow permissions and concurrency, so the notifier workflow deliberately does not rely on them. Its checkout credential must retain the default ability to push to the current repository. Scheduled jobs should not be manually overlapped; in the rare event of a push race, the job fails and unsaved notices may be repeated on the next run.

Development

ruff check .
pytest

Tests mock both external services and never send real messages.

Historical state from the previous implementation is retained at archive/blackouts-1404.json for reference only and is not imported.