Breathe

#help command in action showing all the commands you can use for breathe
#weather command showing the weather for Rockville, Maryland and an image of the location.
#airquality command showing the air quality of the location and recommendation to people with certain conditions.
#dress command telling you what to wear based on the weather conditions throughout the day's forecast.

Inspiration

Both Soham and I are part of the Global Ecology program. We've always been interested in the environment, so we decided to create a bot that would tell us about the atmospheric conditions outside. In the morning, most people don't want to think about what to wear for the day, so this bot uses forecast information in order to develop a list of clothes that one could comfortably wear throughout the day. Our bot also provides detailed suggestions on how to stay safe based on the air quality.

What it does

We have multiple commands including air quality, weather, and even a command that tells specifically what to wear. The air quality command allows users to see the exact air quality rating with a visual guide. It also gives the user exact recommendations on how they should stay safe throughout the day. Our weather command gives insight on what the temperature currently

How we built it

Over the course of a day, Soham and I used Discord.js and Axios to access the MapQuest API and the Breezeometer API. We started with Repl.it and moved to Live share with VS Code.

Challenges we ran into

We first started with Repl.it and Python and that caused us to code without autocompleting or autoformatting. This ruined our productivity as we spent half the time adding tabs. Additionally, our bot stopped working for no apparent, yet after we moved to VSCode on our local machines, it miraculously started working again. We also had limited time due to our personal lives, so we had to collaborate and work on the project together.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud of how we navigated the confusing and complex APIs of Breezeometer and MapQuest as we never really worked with APIs before. We also organized our code very well with different folders for commands and functions. We were also not familiar with the new Discord.js API.

What we learned

We learned how to use REST APIs in order to enrich our code and provide data for our commands. We also learned how to send HTTP requests with Axios and format the response. Soham