From 6de54dd1181e64694b51c76bec88237fe0068bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Bowdre Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 23:21:17 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update readme --- README.md | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 92e1d5e..fd4b31a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ This repo holds miscellaneous stuff I cobbled together for use with my [omg.lol profile](https://jbowdre.lol) and [associated services](https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/jbowdre). ### Tempest -I was inspired by another omgloler who had their local live weather conditions displayed on their profile page, but I didn't want to put my weather station identifier or API token in the client-side code of my page. So I implemented a sort of API proxy: a [simple GitHub Action workflow](.github/workflows/tempest.yml) that runs every ~5 minutes. It uses secrets stored securely in the repo to fetch the weather data from the [Weatherflow Tempest API](https://weatherflow.github.io/Tempest/api/), filters for just the current conditions data (not the giant mess of future-forecast details), and posts that to my [paste.lol pastebin](https://paste.jbowdre.lol/tempest.json). +I recently saw [Kris's omg.lol profile page](https://kris.omg.lol) with integrated live local weather conditions, and I thought that was exceptionally neat. I immediately wanted to do the same with data from my [Weatherflow Tempest weather station](https://shop.weatherflow.com/products/tempest), but wasn't sure how I could do that without putting my API token in the browser. So I promptly abandoned the idea and moved on to other things. -I can then safely use client-side scripting to retrieve the weather details from the pastebin. I cobbled together a quick [test HTML page](tempest.html) that I could use for local testing/development as I worked through how to get the data displayed and formatted correctly. +I later realized that I could use another system to grab data from the authenticated API, and post that somewhere world-readable for the profile page to retrieve it. + +So I cobbled together a sort of API proxy: a [simple GitHub Actions workflow](.github/workflows/tempest.yml) that runs every ~5 minutes. It uses secrets stored securely in my GitHub repo to fetch the weather data from the [Weatherflow Tempest API](https://weatherflow.github.io/Tempest/api/), filters for just the current conditions data (not the giant mess of future-forecast details), and posts that to my [paste.lol pastebin](https://paste.jbowdre.lol/tempest.json). + +I could then use JavaScript to retrieve the weather details from the pastebin. I cobbled together a [quick local HTML page](tempest.html) for testing as I worked through how to get the data displayed and formatted correctly. ![Plain, unstyled weather test page](assets/weather-plain.png) -And then I just copied/pasted the `