dkalenov / weather-bot

Weatheucity

About The Project

Functional: A telegram weather bot that displays weather information of a given city from the site https://openweathermap.org/.

You can check the weather for the following periods:

• at the moment (now);
• for the next 24 hours (24 hours);
• for the next 5 days (5 days).

Resources and APIs

• Python 3.9.13
• requests
• datetime
• aiogram
• OpenWeatherMap API
• Telegram Bot API

Within the project folder, you will find the 'main.py', 'weather_def.py', and 'config.py' files, which are the main components of the project.

• main.py contains the code to start the Telegram bot and process user commands;
• weather_def.py contains functions for calling the OPENWEATHER API and getting weather data;
• config.py contains YOUR unique OPENWEATHER API and Telegram bot token .

How to set up:

1. Create a Telegram bot and grab the token.

• Enter @Botfather in Telegram or click here;
• Click “Start” to activate BotFather bot;
• Choose or type the /newbot command and send it;
• Choose a name and a unique username for your bot;
• Choose or send the command /token;
• Grab your token.

2. We are going to use OpenWeatherMap API, which requires an API key. You can get one for free by logging in to their website.

3. Open the config.py file and replace your BOT_TOKEN and OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY.

4. Before running the bot, you will need to install all the requirement libraries through the command line or terminal using these commands:

• pip install requests
• pip install aiogram

5. You've done, enjoy this bot!