slack-weather-bot

Slack bot to get weather details.

Prerequisites

Getting started

Checkout code:

git checkout https://github.com/jainishshah17/slack-weather-bot.git

Install Npm dependencies:
```
cd slack-weather-bot/
npm install
```
Create Slack App
1. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps
2. Create New App:
  Name: Weather
  Development Slack Workspace: Choose your workspace
3. Add logo and description: “Get current weather information by ZipCode.”
4. Copy Signing Secret and store it in .env file.
5. Go to Features -> OAuth & Permissions -> Scopes and add following permission and save changes:
6. Install newly created Weather App to your workspace.
7. Go to Features -> OAuth & Permissions -> OAuth Tokens & Redirect URLs.
  
  Then copy OAuth Access Token and store it in .env file.
8. Get and store Openweathermap API Key in .env file.
Start Weather app server
```
npm start
```
Install and run Ngrok

npm install -g ngrok
ngrok http 3000
## You will see output like following
ngrok by @inconshreveable                                                                                                                                                                                                     (Ctrl+C to quit)
Session Status                online
Session Expires               7 hours, 59 minutes
Version                       2.3.35
Region                        United States (us)
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding                    http://c1219f73.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000
Forwarding                    https://c1219f73.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000
Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

Create Slash Command in Weather Slack App we created
1. Go to Features -> Slash Commands -> Click on Create New Command
  Provide following details for new slash command:
  
  Command: /weather
  
  Request URL: https://c1219f73.ngrok.io/ (Note:Use your ngrok generated HTTPS URL)
  
  Short Description: Get current weather information by City or ZipCode
  
  Usage Hint: San Jose
2. Go to slack and type /weather San Jose or /weather 95112 to see the magic:

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