TwitWeather

This is a small Twitter bot that tweets a weather forecast each morning.

The project is based in part on williamsmj's dwx and uses the Dark Sky API for weather info. The purpose of this project was to learn more about Zappa while creating something useful.

Check out the live Twitter bot at TwitWeatherAKL.

🌚🌚⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚 🌡13

— TwitWeatherAKL (@TwitWeatherAKL) August 5, 2019

Installation

Follow these steps to get up and running with your own version of TwitWeather deployed to AWS Lambda:

1. Create a virtual env for the project mkproject twitweather

2. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/aell039/TwitWeather .

3. Install required libraries pip install pytz requests zappa tweepy

4. Initialise Zappa zappa init

5. Modify your zappa_settings.json to use your own API keys, location, and AWS settings:

   {
       "dev": {
           "profile_name": "default",
           "project_name": "twitweather",
           "runtime": "python3.6",
           "s3_bucket": "your-s3-bucket",
           "aws_region": "ap-southeast-2",
           "events": [{
               "function": "twitweather.check_time_and_post",
               "expression": "cron(0 * * * ? *)"
            }],
            "environment_variables": {
               "DS_KEY": "your-dark-sky-key",
               "TW_CONSUMERKEY": "your-twitter-consumer-key",
               "TW_CONSUMERKEYSECRET": "your-twitter-consumer-secret",
               "TW_ACCESSTOKEN": "your-twitter-access-token",
               "TW_ACCESSTOKENSECRET": "your-twitter-secret",
               "LATITUDE": "-36.852501",
               "LONGITUDE": "174.763081",
               "LOCAL_TZ": "Pacific/Auckland"           
           }
       }
   }

   Note: an AWS region must be set even though Zappa does not include it by default.

6. Deploy! zappa deploy dev

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