JustTheWeather

Logo for Just The Weather!
Example zipcode

Inspiration

We saw that all the other weather apps are convoluted, messy, and sell your data and we wanted to merge all of that in one clean place.

What it does

You put in your Zip Code and you get your current weather information! Literally takes half a second and no ads or annoying popups.

How we built it

We used Python and Streamlit, for the website, and we used the OpenWeatherAPI to get our weather info.

Challenges we ran into

First, we had issues with printing the data, as we had never worked with API's before and had no idea how to extract the data from the Json, then the different conditions where people put invalid zip codes. Another bug was that the API originally gave the temperature in Kelvin! We had to figure out how to convert Kelvin to Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Doing a ton of learning! This is the first hackathon(For me Tejas) that I'm proud of what we came up with!

What we learned

How to use API's, extract data from JSON, Streamlit, try statements etc.

What's next for JustTheWeather

Being able to list weather advisories, emergency shelters, flood information, earthquake information and more!

Built With

openweatherapi
python
streamlit

Submitted to

AngelHacks 2.0

Created by

I worked on creating the logo and adding information about how to find your zipcode.

Sarah Gao
I worked on different errors and that sprung up, and created. In addition I worked on getting the values out of the json from the API. This was my first time working with APIs!

Tejas Bhartiya
I worked on adding all the weather values/descriptions. This was my first time using an API and making a web app.

Charlie Duong
I worked on setting up the web app in Streamlit and getting the API working with the token. I basically made the base of the app and then my teammates took it from there.

Andrew Gao