Weather Bot

Weather bot for Telegram Messenger with multiple APIs and bookmarks support.

Features

• Multiple APIs support:
  • Open Weather Map
  • Open-Meteo
  • AccuWeather
• Different report types:
  • Daily forecast
  • Current weather and hourly forecast
  • Hourly forecast on different heights (10m, 80m, 120m and 180m)
  • Hourly forecast summary table (using image)
• Weather by location (using built-in Telegram location sharing)
• Text location search (using Open Meteo Geocoding API)
• Beaufort Scale wind level display
• Per-user bookmarks
• Per-user quotas on API requests
• Multiple languages support. Currently translated to:
  • English
  • Russian
• API responses caching

Usage

1. Install .NET 8 SDK for your platform
2. Download the latest release or build it yourself, unpack the archive
3. Run WeatherBot[.exe], the app will create configuration.json file and exit
4. Open created configuration file and fill the following properties:

{
  "TelegramBotToken": "", // Telegram bot API token (get from @BotFather)
  "OpenWeatherMap": {
    "ApiToken": "" // Optionally, OpenWeatherMap token (or completely remove "OpenWeatherMap" section)
  },
  "AccuWeather": {
    "ApiToken": "" // Optionally, AccuWeather token (or completely remove "AccuWeather" section)
  }
}

5. Run the application again. If authorization is successful, console will display "Logged-in as {bot name}"
6. Send /start or /help to the bot to get list of commands. Share a location to get weather

Building

1. Install .NET 8 SDK for your platform
2. In project directory, run dotnet publish ./WeatherBot/WeatherBot.csproj
3. Binaries will be located in ./WeatherBot/bin/Release/net8.0/publish

Libraries used

• Telegram.Bot (MIT license)
• sqlite-net-pcl (MIT license)
• CoordinateSharp (AGPL-3.0 license)
• Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU (Apache-2.0 license)