reejit / weather_bot-1

Telegram weather bot. This bot is designed for getting an actual weather information in your city. Also has some additional features

Weather Telegram Bot

The bot helps to find out the current weather in the specified city. It can also send a daily weather report for the whole day at a time specified by user. There is a possibility to receive notifications of upcoming events user chose. For instance, notification about an impending hurricane on the next day.

Deploying on Heroku

From your dashboard on Heroku create a new app, once you create the app it will direct you to the deploy page.

Take example values from .example.env (modify if needed) and set them in your dashboard (Settings -> Config Vars)

Needed variables (from .example.env):

• DEBUG = false
• Open the settings tab in new window and copy the domain of the app which will be something like https://appname.herokuapp.com/ and paste it in the HEROKU_DEPLOY_DOMAIN environment variable
• TOKEN - put your bot's token

Now go back to the deploy tab and proceed with the steps:

• login to heroku:

heroku login

Note that sometimes this method get stuck in waiting for login, if this is the case with you, you can login using:

heroku login -i

Here we clone our repository and open in development environment:

git clone "https://github.com/shadeshade/weather_bot.git"
cd weather_bot

Create an empty app on Heroku:

heroku git:remote -a {your app name}
git remote -v

Now we can use git to push our code to the Heroku remote:

git push heroku master
heroku open

At this point you will see the building progress in your terminal, if everything went okay you will see something like this

remote: -----> Launching...
remote:        Released v6
remote:        https://project-name.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote:
remote: Verifying deploy... done.

Now go to the app page (the link of the domain you copied before) and add to the end of the link /setwebhook so that the address will be something like https://heroku.com/deploy , if you see webhook setup ok then you are ready to go!

Deploying on Local Host (Ngrok)

Download Ngrok from the link https://ngrok.com/download. Carry out the following steps:

1. Clone the repository to your development environment

git clone "https://github.com/shadeshade/weather_bot.git"
cd weather_bot

2. Install requirements:

pip install requirements.txt

3. ngrok http 8443 . You will get something like this:

4. Setup environment variables in .env file basing on .exampe.env file.

   Needed variables (from .example.env):

   • DEBUG = true
   • Set the variable NGROK_DEPLOY_DOMAIN to a value you got on a previous step
   • TOKEN - put your bot's token
   • PORT and SERVER_IP

5. Now you can start your bot:

python run.py