Unofficial NWS Discord Bot

Gathers information from the National Weather Service in the United States and relays back in Discord using embeds. This bot was made for the Major League Hacking (MLH) RookieHacks Event spanning from 05/29/2020 to 05/31/2020

Allows you to quicly and easily view the weather forcast and active alerts for a location.

Please Visit https://weather.gov for official information from the National Weather Service

Features and Commands

• !alerts (location) - Returns first five alerts for a specified area
• !areas - Returns list of areas for !alerts command
• !coords (location) - Returns coorditates, NWS gridpoint, and NWS office for a specified location
• !forecast (location) - Returns forecast for next ~36 hours for a specified location
• !hourly (location) - Returns hourly forecast for next ~4 hours for a specified location
• !info - Returns list of information about bot and dependencies

How to Install / Use

• Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/MichaelRP1/rookiehacks
• Create a Discord application here
• Create a creds.json file using the creds_template.json file as a template and place your Discord app token in the token field.
• Change the User-Agent field in geocode.py
• Run pip install requirements.txt to install dependencies
• Run python discordbot.py

Built With

• Python
• Discord.py
• GeoPy Geocoder
• National Weather Service API
• Nominatim API

GitHub Link and License

• GitHub
• BSD-3-Clause License