Rain Barrel

Rain Barrel ⛅ An Automated Weather Data Collection Service.

• Collects current weather data on a location using a zip code
• Uses multiple sources to average out data
• Data gathered is periodically saved on Mongo Data base

🙏🏼 Attributes

Rain Barrel uses a number of other projects to work properly:

• Wttr.in - An console-oriented weather forecast service.
• OpenWeather - OpenWeather provides historical, current and forecasted weather data via light-speed APIs

⌨ Installation

Rain Barrel was created using Node.js v12.18.1. Previous versions of Node have not been tested yet.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies.

$ cd rain-barrel
$ npm install

Add environment variables Create a default.json file in /rain-barrel/config/default.json Fill in the environmental variables with your values

{
  "port": 5000,
  "mongoUri": "mongo-Uri-From-Mongodb.com/cloud/atlas",
  "updaterFreqMin": 60,
  "zipcode": "12345",
  "openWeatherMapKey": "api-Key-For-Openweathermap.org/",
  "printData": true
}

Starting development environment

$ npm run dev

Starting production environment

$ npm run build
$ npm run start

⚖ License

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MIT

☑ Tasks

• Refactor some files that have functions into a utils folder or something similar
• Create a routes folder where you will have the route to grab our data through json
• Decide how you will delete old data to prevent the database from getting too big (delete after 1 year? etc.)
• Write up this README.md (show how to set this app up with config/default.json, etc.)
• When grabbing data, use a few different APIs and average out the data from all APIs to get an average temperature