Make a copy of this image and overlay information from the forecast Using the time of day and the current weather conditions, the program will select the proper image from it's repository. Use the weather forecast to select a background image I am using the python requests library to make the API call and covert the response into a JSON package.

Once the program has gathered the user's location it will attempt to use the OpenWeather API to get a weather forecast. With a few lines of code, the Geocoder library can use the user's IP address to estimate lat/long and the city the user is nearest to. I am using the Geocoder library to get an estimation of the user's current location. Program FlowĪs of now, this program will follow consist of five steps: 1. I have several ideas that I still want to implement, so this repository is still subject to change. They had a complete set of images based on the video game FireWatch that I fell in love with. But, I really liked the idea and since my weather app idea had stalled I decided it would be a fun project anyway.Īs I was looking through other peoples take on the project, I came across the WeatherDesk project by GitHub user bharadwaj-raju.

Unfortunately, a quick google search told me that I was not by any means the first person to have this idea. I was thinking about how it would make a cool desktop background, and a light bulb went off! I was browsing reddit one night and came across a really cool picture that someone took of a city street in the rain. My inspiration for this project came from an old attempt at a weather forecast app that I made a while ago. A simple python project to update my Ubuntu desktop background according to the weather at my current location.

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