Sweater Weather

Welcome to the Sweater Weather API

Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Built With
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
• License
• Contact

About The Project

Sweater weather is a exercise in:

• Consuming Weather data through the Dark Sky API,
• Location data through Google Geocoding,
• Yelp information from the Yelp Fusion API.

Built With

• Ruby on Rails
• Google Geocoding API
• Yelp Fusion API
• Dark Sky API

Getting Started

This API is hosted on Heroku Hosted

Project specs can be found here Specs

Usage/Endpoints

This project exposes four endpoints. These endpoints will inform a fictitious front end

1. Create User

• Endpoint

  • POST "<domain>/api/v1/users"

• Required Params:

  • email:
    • IE- test@test.com
  • password:
    • IE - tester
  -

  Returned JSON (click me):

    {
        "api_token": "qhEvzTfq6_p4KQm7_EzSJQ"
    }

• Notes:
  • If this user is already registered, API will submit a redirect: 302 :found

2. Login User

• Endpoint

  • POST "<domain>/api/v1/users"

• Required Params:

  • email:
    • IE- test@test.com
  • password:
    • IE - tester
  Returned JSON (click me):

    {
        "api_token": "qhEvzTfq6_p4KQm7_EzSJQ"
    }

3. Forecast

• Endpoint

  • GET "<domain>/api/v1/forcast"

• Required Params:

  • location:
    • IE- denver, co
  Returned JSON (click me):

    {
        "data": {
            "id": null,
            "type": "forecast",
            "attributes": {
                "forecast_summary": {
                    "icon": "clear-day",
                    "summary": "Clear",
                    "temperature": 65.92,
                    "temperature_high": 77.76,
                    "temperature_low": 49.02,
                    "state": "denver",
                    "city": " co",
                    "time": 1588183457,
                    "date": 1588183457
                },
                "forecast_details": {
                    "summary": "Clear",
                    "feel_like": 65.92,
                    "humidity": 20,
                    "visiblity": "10.00",
                    "uv_index": 9,
                    "today_message": "Clear throughout the day.",
                    "tonight_message": "Clear",
                    "icon": [
                        "clear-day",
                        "Clear",
                        65.92,
                        20,
                        "10.00",
                        9,
                        "Clear throughout the day.",
                        "Clear"
                    ]
                },
                "forecast_days_in_review": {
                    "daily_stats": [
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588140000
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "clear-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.3
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 77.76
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 49.02
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588226400
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "partly-cloudy-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.25
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 88.16
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 57.14
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588312800
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "clear-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.29
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 86.44
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 52.09
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588399200
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "rain"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.61
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 69.29
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 49.23
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588485600
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "partly-cloudy-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.42
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 85.79
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 51.81
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588572000
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "clear-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.34
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 80.56
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 48.99
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588658400
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "partly-cloudy-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.27
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 75.02
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 51.9
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588744800
                            },
                            {
                                "icon": "partly-cloudy-day"
                            },
                            {
                                "humidity": 0.26
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureHigh": 81.49
                            },
                            {
                                "temperatureLow": 43.67
                            }
                        ]
                    ]
                },
                "forecast_hours_in_review": {
                    "hourly_stats": [
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588183200
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 65.7
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588186800
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 68.47
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588190400
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 71.12
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588194000
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 74.14
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588197600
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 76.16
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588201200
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 77.24
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588204800
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 76.64
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588208400
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 74.47
                            }
                        ],
                        [
                            {
                                "time": 1588212000
                            },
                            {
                                "temperature": 70.31
                            }
                        ]
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    }

4. Generate a RoadTrip!

• Endpoint
  • GET "<domain>/api/v1/forcast"
• Required Params:

  • origin:

    • IE- denver, co

  • destination:

    • IE- Fort Lupton, co
    Returned JSON (click me):

    {
        "data": {
            "id": null,
            "type": "road_trip",
            "attributes": {
                "id": null,
                "start_location": "kansas city, ks",
                "end_location": "denver, co",
                "travel_time": "8 hours 40 mins",
                "forecast": "Possible light rain in the morning.",
                "arrival_temperature": 60.31
            }
        }
    }

License

Distributed under the Creative Commons License.

Contact

Joshua O'Bannon - @jtobannon - jtobannon@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/jobannon/sweater_weather