John's lolz

This repo holds miscellaneous stuff I cobbled together for use with my omg.lol profile and associated services.

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 that runs every ~5 minutes. It uses secrets stored securely in the repo to fetch the weather data from the Weatherflow 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.

I can then safely use client-side scripting to retrieve the weather details from the pastebin. I cobbled together a quick test HTML page that I could use for local testing/development as I worked through how to get the data displayed and formatted correctly.

And then I just copied/pasted the <script /> and relevant <span /> sections to the omg.lol profile page editor, and made a few tweaks to better fit the existing schema. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!