Weather Status Bot

Introduction

This bot scrapes weather data from a website to format into a message, which is then broadcasted to a dedicated telegram channel. The script was written in Nodejs and is run on an AWS EC2 environment.

Features

Broadcasts CAT status messages
Broadcasts PSI reading messages(toggleable with RUN_PSI, see environment vars)

Environment Variables

These variables are used to give the bot and the scripts information that is private and necessary to instruct the bot on how to behave.

BOT_TOKEN unique token for telegraf api to recognize which bot to use
CHANNEL_ID unique id for bot to access correct channel
CAT1_USERNAME username to access website
CAT1_PASSWORD password to access website
WEB_LOGIN_URL website url
WEB_CAT_URL url for cat status page on website
WEB_PSI_URL url for psi readings page on website
RUN_PSI toggles psi reading messages(yes/no)

Controlling the bot on the EC2 instance

Begin by ssh-ing into the ec2 instance, which you will need access to the aws account for.

Starting the bot

Make sure you are in bot directory [cd Telegram-Bot], then

$ pm2 start index.js

Changing/Adding env vars

$ sudo nano ~/.bashrc

Crtl-X, Y and Enter to save changes to environment variable file

See PM2 Docs for more info