Reddit Weather Sidebar

Displays the weather forecast in the sidebar for a chosen city.

Instructions

• Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create Reddit (script) app at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and get keys

• Get an API key from https://openweathermap.org

• Edit conf.ini with your details

• Edit old Reddit stylesheet at https://old.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT/about/stylesheet/ and add this CSS

  .side table {
    width: 100%;
    font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;
  }
  
  .side thead {
    display: none;
  }
  
  .side h2, .side h3 {
    padding-top: 1rem;
    text-align: center;
  }
  

• Add a new custom widget on the new Reddit style at https://new.reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT/?styling=true, name it Weather (or whatever you declared it to be in conf.ini) and add this CSS

  .md table {
    width: 100%;
    font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;
  }
  
  .md thead {
    display: none;
  }
  
  .md h2, .md h3 {
    padding-top: 1rem;
    text-align: center;
    font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif;
  }
  

• Run it python run.py

Settings Info

reddit_user - Reddit username
reddit_pass - Reddit password
reddit_client_id - Reddit Client ID
reddit_client_secret - Reddit Client Secret
reddit_target_subreddit - Subreddit to update sidebar
reddit_widget_name - Widget name (new Reddit style)

weather_api_key - API key from openweathermap
weather_units metric
weather_city London,UK

Notes

• The account that you use for the bot has to be a mod of the target subreddit and have the correct permissions to edit things.
• The script only runs once. You can run it on https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ once a day for free.

Tip

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