Weather API for Slack

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Technologies
• Using this API in Slack
• Deploying this API
• Sources

Introduction

• This project implements REST-API which is designed to be integrated with a slack-app. Using this API, I have created a slack command (/weather city_name) using which users can see the weather details of the specified city.
• Below is a snapshot of output
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Technologies

• The project has been implemented using Node.js, AWS lambda, API Gateway and Serverless framework.

Using this API in Slack

• Create a slack app
• In Basic Information page of your slack app, select Slack commands from Add features and functionality dropdown .
  • Click on Create New Command button.
  • In the Command field enter /weather.
  • In the Request URL field add the following link: https://lidd86rav0.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/helloworld
  • click on the save button.
• Click on Install App to Workspace button in the Install your app to your workspace dropdown.
• Yaay!!, you are ready to use the command.

Deploying this API

• Install and Configure the serverless framework with your AWS account.
• Execute the following commands.

$ npm install
$ serverless deploy

Sources

• The Project makes use of Dark Sky Api and Geocode API.
  • Geocode API is used to fetch latitude and longitude based on city name provided
  • Dark Sky API is used to fetch weather conditions based on latitude and longitude.

Tests

• The unit tests are written using Jest testing framework.
• To run tests

  npm test