NOTE: parts of this page describe the Python version of the bot. The Python version is no longer being worked on, and is replaced by the Prosody module.

Use Jabber to get local weather conditions and forecasts. Currently, it supports fetching weather data from:

• Yahoo! Weather,
• The Weather Network,
• Weather Underground, and
• the University of Waterloo Weather Station.

It should be easy to write your own fetchers to use other weather sources.

Requires xmpppy and feedparser.

Set jid, server, port, password, and spooldir in the configuration file. spooldir must be a directory writable by the bot. In the configuration file, add a section for each JID and resource that you want. The section should be named <name>/<resource>, where <name> is the part of the JID before the @ sign.

Screenshot

[to come]

Running Bots

Let me know if you are running this bot.

city	JID	weather source(s)
Edmonton, AB, CA	[email protected]	The Weather Network
Hamilton, ON, CA	[email protected]	The Weather Network
Vancouver, BC, CA	[email protected]	The Weather Network
Waterloo, ON, CA	[email protected]	Weather Underground, Yahoo! Weather, The Weather Network, University of Waterloo

Source Code

You can obtain the source code via git:

git clone http://vcs.uhoreg.ca/git/jabberbots.git

or browse the git repository.

Or you con download weatherbot.py, and a sample configuration file.

License

weatherbot is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 or later.