https://github.com/impshum/Reddit-Weather-Sidebar

Displays the weather forecast in the sidebar on your subreddit for a chosen city.
https://github.com/impshum/Reddit-Weather-Sidebar

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Displays the weather forecast in the sidebar on your subreddit for a chosen city.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/impshum/Reddit-Weather-Sidebar
• Owner: impshum
• Created: 2020-08-09T11:18:21.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-15T20:39:15.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T05:35:30.574Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: bot, praw, reddit, sidebar, weather
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 88.9 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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README

        
## Reddit Weather Sidebar

Displays the weather forecast in the sidebar for a chosen city.

![](s.png)

### Instructions

-   Install requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt`

-   Create Reddit (script) app at  and get keys

-   Get an API key from 

-   Edit conf.ini with your details

-   Edit old Reddit stylesheet at  and add this CSS

        .side table {

          width: 100%;

          font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;

        }

        .side thead {

          display: none;

        }

        .side h2, .side h3 {

          padding-top: 1rem;

          text-align: center;

        }

-   Add a new custom widget on the new Reddit style at , name it `Weather` (or whatever you declared it to be in conf.ini) and add this CSS

        .md table {

          width: 100%;

          font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;

        }

        .md thead {

          display: none;

        }

        .md h2, .md h3 {

          padding-top: 1rem;

          text-align: center;

          font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;

        }

-   Run it `python run.py`

### Settings Info

`reddit_user` - Reddit username  

`reddit_pass` - Reddit password  

`reddit_client_id` - Reddit Client ID  

`reddit_client_secret` - Reddit Client Secret  

`reddit_target_subreddit` - Subreddit to update sidebar  

`reddit_widget_name` - Widget name (new Reddit style)  

`weather_api_key` - API key from openweathermap  

`weather_units` metric  

`weather_city` London,UK  

### Notes

-   The account that you use for the bot has to be a mod of the target subreddit and have the correct permissions to edit things.

- The script only runs once. You can run it on https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ once a day for free.

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