Project Description

A basic Weather App created with two Python-based frameworks, Tkinter and Flask.

Tkinter is a standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) library in Python used for creating desktop applications. It provides a variety of widgets like buttons, labels, text boxes, and menus, allowing developers to design interactive and user-friendly interfaces.

Flask is a micro web framework in Python that is used to build web applications and APIs. It's lightweight and flexible, offering developers control over how they want to structure their applications. Flask supports extensions for database integration, form handling, authentication, and more, making it a popular choice for both simple and complex web projects.

This app uses OpenWeatherMap.org for retrieving real-time weather data based on user input.

Choose to either run the app using Flask or Tkinter. The user enters a city, and the app retrieves weather data using OpenWeatherMap's APIs. The information returned includes temperature, "feels like" temperature, high and low temperatures, and humidity. The Tkinter app retrieves a 3-day weather forecast, while the Flask app retrieves a 5-day weather forecast.

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Instructions:

What We’re Looking For:

Make a weather app that: Let users enter a city and get the current weather. Shows the weather clearly, with any details you think are useful.

Extras (NOT required. But If You’re Up for It): Add a 5-day forecast. Let users see the weather based on their location. Use icons or images to make the weather info look cool.

Again, use whatever technology stack you like!

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Screenshot of Website

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Run Locally

1. Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/Rorschach3/Weather_App.git

2. Go to the project directory

  cd Weather_App

3. Install VirtualEnv

  pip install virtualenv

4. creating virtualenv

  virtualenv env

5. Activating virtual environment\

  source env/bin/activate 

6. Install requirements

  pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Go to OpenWeatherMap.org and create an account to generate your own API Key. Once you copy your API Key rename both ".env.example" files to just ".env". then paste the API key and replace the text "paste your openweather api key here."

8. Choose Flask or Tkinter Weather_App

9. Tkinter

  cd tikinter

10. Run the Weather_App

  python weather_app.py

OR

9. Flask

  cd flask

10. Run the App

  python app.py

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Usage/Examples

Below is a link to a short video explaining the process of creating this weather app as well as deployment and usage.

Youtube Link