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• master: weather API
• merge_interval: a tail recursion algorithm of merging a list of interval.
• stack_tower: algorithm for stacking a bunch of books in to a stable tower.

Weather API

1. A worker that fetches the current weather data for HK and SG every minute.
2. Store the temperature and humidity, etc data with timestamps in MongoDB
3. Provide a RESTFUL API endpoint to query the weather data from the database.

Links

• Backend: Website
• Linkedin Profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/craaronyang/]

Tech stack

 - Flask + MongoDB + Python

Functionality

1. Collect weather data from pyowm.
2. Prepare and process data, store the data into MongoDB.

Installation

• make sure mongodb > 3.4 is installed and running
• git clone this repo
• pip3 install -r dev-requirement.txt OR pip3 install flask pymongo -y
• pip3 install pyowm

Run

Run worker to get weather data:

$/path/to/python3 worker.py

Run server:

$/path/to/python3 app.py

Test use case:

• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=HK
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=HK&start=2017-11-23T04:08:05&end=2017-12-24T04:08:05
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=HK&start=2017-13-23T04:08:05&end=2017-15-24T04:08:05
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=HK&start=2017-11-13T04:08:05&end=2017-12-24T04:08:05
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=HK&start=2017-11-13T04:08:05&end=2017-10-24T04:08:05
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=SG&start=2017-11-13T04:08:05&end=2017-10-24T04:08:05
• http://13.59.162.183:8000/weather?city=H