Cleartrip’s GTalk Bot. Search & book train tickets from your IMs.

by Devakishor Soraisam on March 20, 2009 · 8 comments

in Google, Tips and Tricks

Searching and booking Indian Railway tickets got a lot easier thanks to the Gtalk BOT by Cleartrip, a brilliant initiative. All you gotta do is add cleartrip.trains@jabber.org as a friend on Gtalk or any jabber compliant IM(s)

Next time you want to book/search for a train ticket, just shoot a query to this BOT using the predefined keywords. Type ‘help’ and ‘commands’ to know the query format and some predefined keywords.

Below is a screenshot.

 

Cleartrip Chat

 

I wish Cleartrip comes out with something similar for flight bookings.

There are many other useful Gtalk Bots. I’ll be writing a post making a list of some useful ones, if you know of any, let me know by commenting.

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1 vishwas March 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm

thanks mr. deb kishore singh.. if not for your blogs, illiterate users like us would not even have known that there is something called gtalk bots..

2 Devakishor Soraisam March 24, 2009 at 5:01 pm

@vishwas Glad to know you that illiterates like you found my blog posts helpful.

Btw it’s Devakishor and not “deb kishore”…!!!

3 Amit Kulkarni March 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Interesting … there were similar initiatives by yahoo for general search

wrt train reservations i find http://erail.in abs brilliant. simple yet full featured powerful interface

4 Devakishor Soraisam April 3, 2009 at 3:49 am

@Amit I must confess I haven’t been using any Yahoo’s product lately, I’m more biased towards ‘anything’ Google. And this certainly needs to change. I’ll check out some yahoo products about which I have been hearing about on Twitter.

And thanks for letting me know about http://erail.in

5 Usha April 13, 2009 at 5:26 pm

No Jabber “complaint” please! I guess you meant “compliant” :>

Btw, you can also do a “Bombay Delhi 3AC next week” for search.

6 Devakishor Soraisam April 13, 2009 at 5:53 pm

@usha Yup, ‘compliant’ it is… corrected.

Thanks.

7 richa September 13, 2009 at 10:04 pm

i dont think cleartrip works that well ..
i came across a site which is much better than clear trip n indian railways site .. this one is the best of the lot http://www.bharatrail.net

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