weather-station

Description

Weather station automatization reports using with Github Actions and X (also knowing as Twitter in the past) daily report publication process.

The information is obtained from Weather Underground platform. Launching HTTP request over the Web API to get information about the weather information sent by our weather station.

Finally it´s reported in X platform:

• X (Twitter) profile: ⛅Tiempo Castrocontrigo✌️

Here, a picture about the weather station 📸

How to run

0. Recommended create python virtual environment and install requirements.txt packages.

python -m venv venv

.\venv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r .\requirements.txt

Note: scripts using by default environment variables but, you can use also input arguments.

1. Get report about weather station and print in console.

python .\src\weather-station\test\morning_daily_scheduler_on_x.py `
    --weather_underground_station_id <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_STATION_ID> `
    --weather_underground_api_key <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_API_KEY> 

2. Get report from previous day and publish tweet in X (Twitter) platform.

python .\src\weather-station\post_morning_daily_tweet_in_x.py `
    --weather_underground_station_id <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_STATION_ID> `
    --weather_underground_api_key <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_API_KEY> `
    --x_api_key <X_API_KEY> `
    --x_api_key_secret <X_API_KEY_SECRET> `
    --x_access_token <X_ACCESS_TOKEN> `
    --x_access_secret_token <X_ACCESS_SECRET_TOKEN>

3. Get report from previous day and publish post in Facebook platform.

Note

Meta (Facebook) requires generate a Long-live-token that expires after 60 days: use generate_facebook_long_lived_token.py script.

python .\src\weather-station\post_morning_daily_post_in_facebook.py `
    --weather_underground_station_id <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_STATION_ID> `
    --weather_underground_api_key <WEATHER_UNDERGROUND_API_KEY> `
    --facebook_access_token <FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN> `
    --facebook_page_id <FACEBOOK_PAGE_ID>

How to use generate_facebook_long_lived_token.py python script:

python generate_long_lived_token.py `
  --app_id <FACEBOOK_APP_ID> `
  --app_secret <FACEBOOK_SECRET_APP> `
  --short_token <FACEBOOK_SHORT_TOKEN>

• For app_id and app_secret go to https://developers.facebook.com/, go to My Apps, select the app and go to app configuration. On basic you can get this data.

• For short_token use the GET /me/accounts end-point over Graph API Explorer and get access_token value.

• Page Id value also can be capture from GET /me/accounts response.

Run unit tests

python .\src\weather-station\test\run_unit_tests.py

Useful information used to build this project.

• Crontab guru
• X Developer portal