HourAHour

HourAHour is a project developed to record weather conditions hourly, allowing you to set a region, state, and country.

Features

The project includes the following features:

• Retrieves real-time weather information for Blumenau, SC, using the wttr.in service.
• Creates and updates a text file with weather details, execution time, and location.
• Performs automatic commits to a Git repository every hour and daily at 08:00.
• Logs detailed records of each operation in a commit_diario.log file.
• Handles errors during execution, logging messages for later analysis.

Technologies Useds

The project was developed using the following technologies:

• Python: Primary programming language for the project.
• wttr.in: Weather API to fetch meteorological information for Blumenau.
• schedule: Library for scheduling recurring tasks.
• subprocess: Used for integrating with Git commands.
• requests: Library for making HTTP calls to the weather API.
• unittest: Python library focused on unit testing.

Key Learnings

Key takeaways from this project include:

• Automating Git contributions to reduce the need for manual actions.
• Using public APIs to fetch external information (such as weather) and integrating it into workflows.
• Configuring and managing recurring tasks using the schedule library.
• Logging events and error messages in persistent logs to facilitate debugging and analysis.
• Applying Python coding best practices, including handling encoding to avoid issues with Unicode characters.

Conclusion

HourAHour is a practical tool for automating the creation of commits in a Git repository, recording real-time weather information. The project highlights important concepts such as automation, API integration, log management, and task scheduling, providing an efficient and reliable solution to maintain an up-to-date Git history.