WeatherBot

Telegram bot that provides weather data from the OpenWeather API based on your current location.

Demo

https://t.me/ve_weather_bot

Usage

1. Clone this repository using: git clone https://github.com/venyxD/weather-bot.git
2. Create new Telegram bot with BotFather
3. Copy your bot API token into config.py:
   BOT_API_TOKEN = 'Paste your bot API token here'
4. Create an account on OpenWeatherMap
5. Copy your OpenWeather API token into config.py:
   OPENWEATHER_API_KEY = 'Paste your OpenWeather API token here'
6. Optional: Go to the project root directory and install the virtualenv library using pip and create a virtual environment. Run the following commands respectively:
   • pip install virtualenv
   • virtualenv venv
   • source venv/bin/activate
7. Download and install all dependencies in the requirements.txt using pip install -r requirements.txt
8. Start bot: $ python bot.py
9. Open your bot in Telegram and start it with /start command

Tools used

• Python 3
• AIOGram
• OpenWeather API

Notes

Weather response based on current location only works on iOS and Android mobile devices, not on Telegram desktop app because it does not provide device location.

TODO

• Add aiohttp support to make async http requests
• Add other cities, not only current location
• Add OpenWeather forecast