sopel-weather

Introduction

sopel-weather is a weather lookup plugin for Sopel.

Since Yahoo deprecated their weather API on January 3, 2019, a reimplementation of the weather plugin was necessary

Installing

If possible, use pip to install this plugin. Below are example commands; you might need to add sudo and/or call a different pip (e.g. pip3) depending on your system and environment. Do not use setup.py install; Sopel won't be able to load the plugin correctly.

Published release

pip install sopel-modules.weather

From source

Clone the repo, then run this in /path/to/sopel-weather

pip install .

Configuring

You can automatically configure this plugin using the sopel configure --plugins command.

However, if you want or need to configure this plugin manually, you will need to define the following in ~/.sopel/default.cfg

[weather]
geocoords_provider = GEOCOORDS_PROVIDER
geocoords_api_key = GEOCOORDS_API_KEY
weather_provider = WEATHER_PROVIDER
weather_api_key = WEATHER_API_KEY

Usage

Current Weather

.weather # Only works if setlocation has been previously run
.weather seattle, us
.weather london

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR: 6°C (42°F), Clear, Humidity: 83%, UV Index: 0, Gentle breeze 4.0m/s (↗)

24h Forecast

.forecast # Only works if setlocation has been previously run
.forecast seattle, us
.forecast london

Forecast: Paris, Ile-de-France, FR: Light rain tomorrow through next Saturday, High: 15°C (59°F), Low: 11°C (52°F), UV Index: 2

Customize User Location

.setlocation london # Sets location by city name
.setlocation 98101 # Sets location by US zip code

I now have you at Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Requirements

Modern weather APIs require Latitude & Longitude as inputs to their APIs, so we need to leverage a GeoCoords API to convert location searches to coordinates.

API Keys

GeoCoords

LocationIQ

https://locationiq.com/

Weather

Open-Meteo

Does not require an API key; use any string you want.

https://open-meteo.com/

OpenWeatherMap

https://openweathermap.org/

Pirate Weather

A drop-in replacement API for the old Dark Sky service bought by Apple.

https://pirateweather.net/

Python Requirements

requests
sopel