Automated Weather Updates Via Text Messages

This program texts weather updates for a specified area along with an image of the sky captured from traffic cameras. You can send to as many phone numbers at once as you like. The current schedule is to text the receipeint everyday at 9am as long as the program is running, this schedule and frequency can be edited as you like. To use this script, create a .env file following the provided example and fill in the required variables. Run the program using the run.bat file

Important Notes:

• The script uses Gmail to send messages. If using a different email provider, you may need to modify the code in main.py.

• The script has been tested only with Gmail for sending messages.

• When using Gmail, you must create an app password within two-factor authentication, as using the account password directly may not work.

• The recipient of the text message will see your email address. Consider creating a new email address if you prefer not to reveal your personal email.

• You can customize the code to adjust how frequently weather updates are sent.

• I provide examples for Google Fi, and T-Mobile. If you want to send SMS via email through other carriers, you'll need to find out the specific email-to-SMS gateway address for each carrier you want to support. Unfortunately, there's no universal standard for this, and you may need to refer to the documentation or contact the carrier directly to obtain the correct email-to-SMS gateway address.

Libraries to install:

pip install requests-html

pip install python-dotenv

Instructions:

1. Create a .env file with the required variables using the provided .env_example file.

2. Find The URL Of The Traffic Camera to Scrape (refer to section below)

3. Customize the script as needed for your use case (update frequency of schedule at schedule.every().day.at("09:00").do(job) in main.py).

4. Run the script to start receiving weather updates. (can run using included run.bat file, or compile to .exe using pyinstaller)

5. You are done :)

Finding The URL Of The Traffic Camera To Scrape:

1. Find local traffic cameras (I googled "seattle traffic cameras" in my case)
2. Find a camera you like, get the page to display the image from the camera
3. While hovering over the image from the camera : Right-Click, Inspect
4. Find the <img src=" THE URL HERE" > in the html
5. Copy the url
6. Make sure the url for the image is not static, and that the camera updates to the same url for all photos
7. Within .env paste the url into the Camera_URL = "" variable