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Python3.x
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pip3 install -r requirements.txt
The weatherbot slackbot uses the Open Weather Map API to fetch data by city name. This requires an API key, which can then be stored under .env alongside
the slackbot api key:
# .env
WEATHERBOT_API_KEY="insert the weatherbot api key" //TO CHANGE
ECHOBOT_API_KEY="insert the echobot api key" //TO CHANGE
OPENWEATHER_API_KEY="the openweather api key" //TO CHANGE
Alternatively, you can export these before use:
$ export WEATHERBOT_API_KEY="insert the weatherbot api key" //TO CHANGE
$ export ECHOBOT_API_KEY="insert the echobot api key" //TO CHANGE
$ export OPENWEATHER_API_KEY="the openweather api key" //TO CHANGE
Or save them as environment variables in your .bashrc
$ echo "WEATHERBOT_API_KEY='insert the weatherbot api key'" >> $HOME/.bashrc //TO CHANGE
$ echo ECHOBOT_API_KEY='insert the echobot api key'" >> $HOME/.bashrc //TO CHANGE
$ echo OPENWEATHER_API_KEY='insert the openweather api key'" //TO CHANGE
Run the weatherbot:
$ python3 weatherbot.py
Run the echobot
$ python3 echobot.py
NLP Technique for Question 20
In slack, grab the weather for any city with @weatherbot <city>. Weatherbot will use difflib to look for close matches of the input string with the list of all cities contained in cities.csv. If a close match is found, weatherbot grabs the city's weather data and pulls out the key features.
To make things really cool, weatherbot even maps each high-level weather description to an emoji!!!!
See the example below where a real live slack user with spelling difficulties gets real live weather data frm wetherbt!!!
Echobot in action
