Instagram Weather Bot

A python project to run a bot that posts weather forecast and water temperature for a defined lake.

This is a project I did to learn about web scraping, api usage and image manipulation in python.

The example bots post about Lake Starnberg and Ammersee in Bavaria, Germany.

Installation/Usage

1. Clone the repo and setup and activate a venv according to requirements.txt
2. Obtain API keys for weatherapi.com and openweathermap.org (fallback) and store them in weather_api_keys.json
3. Create a png with the background for your posts (look at examples, note pixel coordinates of cities to be added) and store it in a subfolder for your bot
4. Provide a caption.txt in the folder for your bot containing a caption for the post
5. Configure your bot in bot_config.json (remove example entries from config)
6. Modify the WeatherBot.get_water_data() function to retrieve water temp for your lake (or remove the feature) as this function only works with Waterscience Service Bavaria
7. run main.py
8. Setup a cronjob if you want to run it on a schedule