/walking-notification

A simple script for sending your team a Slack notification of the weather conditions for walking.

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Walking Notifications

This is a simple script that's meant to be setup to run via cron or something similar to send walking notifications to your team's slack channel.

Example Slack message: @channel It's freezing, maybe we should all skip the walk this time. It's currently 37°F (feels like 32°F) and cloudy.

Setup

  1. Setup your API keys.

    • Go to the Yahoo Developer Network and click the "Create an App" button.
    • Go to the Slack API website.
      • Create a new app
      • Click bots under "Add features and functionality" and then click "Add Bot User"
      • On the left navigation click "Install App" and then click "Install App to Workspace"
      • The token you'll use is the "Bot User OAuth Access Token"
      • Make sure you invite your bot to the channel you'll be using.

  2. Install direnv.

  3. Put the following in your .envrc file.

     export YAHOO_CLIENT_KEY=********************
 export YAHOO_CLIENT_SECRET=********************
 export SLACK_API_TOKEN=xoxb-********************
 export PYTHON_CMD_PREFIX='docker run -it -v `pwd`:/code walking_notification:latest'

  4. Run direnv allow

  5. Run make build

Running the script

$ make run_bash
# For a dry run with out sending the notification to Slack
$ ./walking_notification.py -n --location=66502
# To send the notification to Slack
$ ./walking_notification.py --location=66502

To run tests

$ make run_bash
$ py.test