https://github.com/anthonydb/wx-mail

A simple app to email yourself the weather forecast each day.
https://github.com/anthonydb/wx-mail

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A simple app to email yourself the weather forecast each day.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/anthonydb/wx-mail
• Owner: anthonydb
• Created: 2015-08-12T15:02:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-03-17T03:07:47.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-13T06:25:26.478Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# wx-mail

I'm a weather nerd. I also own a Raspberry Pi. So, what better coding project than a short Python script that lets the Pi email me the weather forecast every day? Because: Lazy. Also, I wanted to learn more about using Python to send emails.

## Usage

* Sign up for a free API key from [Dark Sky](https://darksky.net/dev). You won't be hitting the API much, so the free plan will work just fine.

* Find the latitude and longitude of the place you want for your forecast.

* Add those coordinates, your API key and your email information to `settings.py`. In there, you can also specify a list of the email addresses to send your forecast to.

* You'll probably want to edit the email HTML to suit your needs.

* Set this to run on a cron job and enjoy a fresh forecast in your inbox.

## Requirements

You'll need two Python libraries:

```

pip install requests darkskylib

```

## Results

The email text ends up looking like this (of course, you can customize it):

**Hello!**

Here's the weather forecast as of March 16, 2019, at 8:00 PM

**Today's Look Ahead**

Snow (< 1 in.) on Monday, with high temperatures bottoming out at 47°F on Monday.

**Your Big Weekly Forecast**

**Saturday, 3/16**

Partly cloudy until afternoon.

\* High 57; low 39. 

\* Sunrise 7:21 am; set 7:19 pm.

**Sunday, 3/17**

Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.

\* High 51; low 32. 

\* Sunrise 7:20 am; set 7:20 pm.

**Monday, 3/18**

Light snow (< 1 in.) in the morning.

\* High 47; low 33. 

\* Sunrise 7:18 am; set 7:21 pm.

*etc. ...*