A tiny slack bot which gives you weather information.
catherine-labot is just a proof of concept to show how it can be easy to play with API to have a bot which is enough "clever" to understand natural langage and give you weather information (five days forecast due to the API limitation).
The name catherine-labot is just a tribute of the famous french weather presenter Catherine Laborde retired in 2017, but don't worry she speaks english ;)
Please make sur Golang is installed correctly. The bot was tested on Golang 1.8.
The config file config/config.json contains api keys. You must edit it before running the bot.
{
"slack_token": "SLACK_TOKEN",
"openweathermap_api_key": "OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY",
"meaningcloud_api_key": "MEANINGCLOUD_API_KEY"
}
The free plan of OpenWeatherMap and MeaningCloud are enough to play and have fun discussing with the bot !
After setting your bot in Slack, you can discuss with it mentioning it every time with @<your_bot_name>.
For instance :
@catherine-labot What is the weather at Rennes today at 5pm ?
> The estimated temperature at Rennes the 07/04 at 05 pm is 30°C. A clear sky is also planned.
@catherine-labot Is it raining next friday at Paris ?
> The estimated temperature at Paris the 07/07 is 24°C. A light rain is also planned.
@catherine-labot Do you like baguette ?
> Sorry, I don't understand, I am just a weather bot !
A Dockerfile is present if you want to build catherine-labot and tun it as a Docker container.
Thanks @rapidloop for the slack library.
MIT © Léo Lozach