/WeatherApp

Primary LanguagePython

Weather Application

Developed with Python 3.7

Setup

  • Developed with SQLite (Postgres is ideal)

Requirements

Environment Variables

  • SECRET_KEY
  • DATABASE_URL e.g. sqlite:///weather_app.sql

Usually email verification during signup is enforced but in this case it was excluded to simplify

Admin endpoint is moved to /control

Assumptions

Assumed that forecasts can change, unsure if one per day should exist or allow multiple (may update to only allow one per day)

API

API requires Basic Authentication, the user's email and password. API documenation is available at /api/swagger-ui. Documentation is also protected.

Services

Running the function to fetch the forecast information from News24 can be run as an admin command

python manage.py fetch_news24_forecasts <city_id>

E.g. Cape Town has a city id of 77107.