wx-mail

I'm a weather nerd. I also own a Raspberry Pi. So, what better coding project than a short Python script that lets the Pi email me the weather forecast every day? Because: Lazy. Also, I wanted to learn more about using Python to send emails.

Usage

• Sign up for a free API key from Dark Sky. You won't be hitting the API much, so the free plan will work just fine.
• Find the latitude and longitude of the place you want for your forecast.
• Add those coordinates, your API key and your email information to settings.py. In there, you can also specify a list of the email addresses to send your forecast to.
• You'll probably want to edit the email HTML to suit your needs.
• Set this to run on a cron job and enjoy a fresh forecast in your inbox.

Requirements

You'll need two Python libraries:

pip install requests darkskylib

Results

The email text ends up looking like this (of course, you can customize it):

Hello!

Here's the weather forecast as of March 16, 2019, at 8:00 PM

Today's Look Ahead

Snow (< 1 in.) on Monday, with high temperatures bottoming out at 47°F on Monday.

Your Big Weekly Forecast

Saturday, 3/16

Partly cloudy until afternoon.

* High 57; low 39.

* Sunrise 7:21 am; set 7:19 pm.

Sunday, 3/17

Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.

* High 51; low 32.

* Sunrise 7:20 am; set 7:20 pm.

Monday, 3/18

Light snow (< 1 in.) in the morning.

* High 47; low 33.

* Sunrise 7:18 am; set 7:21 pm.

etc. ...