Commandline application for Sending Weather Forecasts via SMS with the Twilio API

Installation & Instructions (Linux Only):

1. Ensure you have a Twilio Account. If you are a student, Github has a $50 credit for student twilio accounts https://education.github.com/pack

2. register for the free weather API on RapidAPI hub https://rapidapi.com/weatherapi/api/weatherapi-com/

3. install dependiencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Fill in API key and Twilio API.

5. run main.py with:

   python3 main.py

   or

   chmod +x main.py && ./main.py

6. register main.py to schedule execution

   Before execute the command below, be sure to change directory to the path 'main.py' is located

   Modify the time and date fields described as * * * * *

   echo "* * * * * ${USER}" $(which python3) $(pwd)\/main.py | tee -a /etc/crontab
   
   systemctl restart cron.service

   The time and date fields:

   To run main.py at 09:00 AM everyday

   echo "0 9 * * * ${USER}" $(which python3) $(pwd)\/main.py | tee -a /etc/crontab

   To run main.py at 02:15 PM on the first of every month:

   echo "15 14 1 * * ${USER}" $(which python3) $(pwd)\/main.py | tee -a /etc/crontab

   To check if job is scheduled for user (replace username):

   sudo crontab -u [username] -l

   or if root/dont have root privileges:

   less /etc/crontab

   Further detail refer https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crontab.5.html