Project Overview

The Weather Dashboard is a user-friendly application designed to provide real-time weather information by city name.

Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

installation

  pip3 install python
  pip3 install flask
  pip3 install requests
  pip3 install flask-cors
  pip3 install python-dotenv

API Key: Obtain an API key from OpenWeather to fetch weather data.

Steps to Run Locally

1. Clone the Repository

       git clone https://github.com/Shrrutii29/Weather_Dashboard.git

2. API KEY create .env file and write in it following : API_KEY=your_openweathermap_api_key

3. replace API_URL with folllowing in script.py

      http://127.0.0.1:8080/

4. Start Flask Server

       python3 main.py

5.    http://127.0.0.1:8080/

Deploy on replit

1. sign up on replit
2. add all files
3. in secret write API_KEY=your_openweathermap_api_key
4. run main.py
5. my replit deploy url is as following for reference, you will get in similar form

      https://c6b1ce78-47b5-4158-bbac-6d7a9fb83342-00-364lentosq3f0.sisko.replit.dev/weather

6. replace API_URL with that in script.py
7. and now you can access weatherDashboard using that URL

Design Decisions

• Frontend HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Backend Flask

Future improvement

1. clear previous search history
2. shortcut to search previous\y searched city by clicking it
3. dark mode / light mode facility
4. autocomplete city name

Platform limitation

1. OpenWeather's free tier limits the number of requests
2. Limitations for deployment using replit

User Interface