teddymcw / weather-alerts

Service that takes location data from foursquare check-ins and warns users if bad weather is forecast in the area.

weather-alerts

Service that takes location data from foursquare check-ins and warns users if bad weather is forecast in the area.

App Overview

This app should be able to do the following when done.

1. Pull the location from a check-in
2. Pull the Lat and Long from this location
3. Using the Lat and Long contact NOAA
4. Get the forcast from NOAA
5. Use either Twellio or e-mail to send the forcast to you.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• NOAA API
• Twillio API Library - pip install twillio
• Foursquare API Library - pip install foursquare
• Postgres / Postgis

Installation Instructions

• git clone repository
• cd repository folder
• virtualenv .
• . bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python db_create.py

To DO (roughly in order of priority)

• Foursquare API prototype
• NOAA Data examples
• Twilio Messaging Script
• Look into using OAuth2 to simplify login process
• Setup SQLAlchemy with a POstgresDB
• Create alert model for db
• Create alert view for flask