Twitter Weather App

The Twitter Weather App averages the weather from the last N number of geotagged tweets.

Get keys

You will need a subscribe key for pubnub-twitter along with a WeatherAPI key to authenticate your app. Get your keys from the PubNub Twitter Stream Page and your WeatherAPI Account respectively.

Set up the project

If you don't want to copy the code from this document, you can clone the repository and use the files in there.

1. run pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Create a file named secrets.py and set the following constants:

   TWITTER_SUB_KEY = "<pubnub-twitter-key"
   WEATHER_API_KEY = "<your_weather_api_key>"
   

Note: Don't add secrets.py to your git repo!

Run Twitter Weather

You first need to start the subcribe process to see the updates you want to publish.

1. Open the terminal and run the script with python3 run_twitter_weather.py -n <number_of_tweets_to_average_over> [-r,--remove_files].

   This will start logging temperatures and the sliding average temperatures in temps.txt and sliding_avg_temps_f.txt, respectively (in fahrenheit).

   -r or --remove_files removes these log files before running. You can also run python3 run_twitter_weather.py -h for help.

   Once started, you should see a message that the script has connected to pubnub-twitter and begins to receive tweet messages

2. When you're finished, press Control-C to exit the script.

3. To test whether the script has run properly, run python3 twitter_weather_test.py -n <SAME_NUMBER_OF_TWEETS_AS_RUN> without deleting the log files.

   You should see Tests passed. for a successful test run.

   Sample data has been included in this repo for n=10 Tweets to average over.

Documentation

• WeatherAPI reference
• PubNub API reference for Python

Support

If you need help or have a general question, contact rjwgibbs@gmail.com.