/weather_twitterbot

Twitter Bot that will do daily weather updates for users that tag it

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Twitter Bot that tweets the Weather everyday!

Works by tweeting at the bot with the location you want to be notified

Usage

@bot_tag Lisbon, Portugal
The bot will tweet at you everyday at 08:00 Lisbon Time the maximum and minimum expected temperature for Madrid, Spain

Bot features

  • Tweets everyday at 9am Lisbon Time
  • Doesn't allow multiple locations for 1 user automatically (can be done manually by changing your users_accepted.txt)
  • Auto follow back (if enabled)
  • Information provided:
    • Forecast for maximum and minimum temperature
    • Actual temperature and sensation temperature
    • Bad conditions warning (Rain & Snow)
    • UV Index
    • Advice for sunscreen on high UV
    • Tell if the weather is good to go to the beach
    • Sunset time (Lisbon Time)

Dependencies

pip install tweepy
pip install pycountry
pip install pyowm
pip install google-trans-new
pip install python-dotenv

API Keys

To use this repository create a file named .env on weather_twitterbot directory
For this you need to create a Developer Twitter Account

CONSUMER_KEY=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY_TWITTER_DEVELOPER_ACCOUNT
CONSUMER_SECRET=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY_TWITTER_DEVELOPER_ACCOUNT
ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_TWITTER_DEVELOPER_ACCOUNT
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET_TWITTER_DEVELOPER_ACCOUNT
API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_OWM

Create a service

On line 8 in twitterbot.service
Change ~/github/weather_twitterbot/bot.py to your_path_to_file/bot.py
If you aren't sure what's the path to the file go inside the directory that contains the file and do pwd on the terminal

Now open the terminal on weather_twitterbot/ and run

sudo cp twitterbot.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start twitterbot.service
sudo systemctl enable twitterbot.service

The last command is to make sure that the service is started on system startup