AdaFeb 4, 2023
Joshua Byrd
Okay that's enough dev for 1 day. My weather bot is now up and running at @weather so give it a follow if you want #Brisbane weather updates every hour or so. Weather data is from https://openweathermap.org and I'll release the source code a bit later so anyone can contribute to future development. Boosts welcome. Thanks all!
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Feb 4, 2023 at 8:49amWeb
Show threadJoshua ByrdFeb 4, 2023

Here's the source code as promised. Any help anyone can give developing this bot is appreciated. Issues and pull requests always welcome.

https://github.com/phocks/bne-weather-bot 🌞

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Show threadClayton Errington 🖥️Feb 5, 2023
@phocks this is cool! Could you send it a toot a location and it reply with the weather? Is it set up with one location or can you set that somehow?
Show threadJoshua ByrdFeb 5, 2023
@cjerrington Yep I thought of that. It could be done. Right now it looks up a latlon and seems to pick the most recent closest weather station. Tooting a location would require geocoding the location into lat and long numbers
Show threadJoshua ByrdFeb 5, 2023
@cjerrington Feel free to suggest it as a feature in Github if ya want :)
Show threadJoshua ByrdFeb 5, 2023
@cjerrington oh and it would also require listening to toot replies so hooking up to the Mastodon Streaming API probably
Show threadJoshua ByrdFeb 5, 2023
@cjerrington or you could do it just with more frequent polling of the endpoint I guess. It just wouldn't be real time. Not sure if Deno Deploy could handle a persistent streaming http connection anyway. But yes, good features to think about :)
Show threadClayton Errington 🖥️Feb 5, 2023
@phocks I’ll take a look closer soon and make some suggestions!
Show threadMarkFeb 5, 2023

@phocks the code has a fixed lat lon location but the name of the location seems to change. Is that a “feature” of the weather API?

Maybe a bit too “smart” but what if the bot looked at a profile field for bne.social members that had a lat lon or suburb, it’d select a member at random until it finds a valid profile field, with fallback to current?

I can derive the pseudocode but I’m not proficient with TS 😕

Show threadMΛSΞYFeb 4, 2023
@phocks @weather Oooooo me likey! Nice work on the handle and the bot mate. 🙌🏼☀️