WeatherApp

Content

• Brief description
• Tools
• Features
• Hotkeys
• How it works
• Screenshots
• Ways to improve the project
• Installation

Brief description

This GUI app was created to show the detailed information about the weather in any city selected by user.

Tools

Language: Python
API: OpenWeather

Libraries:

• PyQt5
• qt_material
• requests
  • Built-in libraries:
    • sqlite3
    • functools
    • ctypes

Features

• Settings
• Favorite cities
• Default city (it’s displayed right when the app is opened)
• App can be minimized to tray
• Hotkeys
• The search works for both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet

Hotkeys

• Enter: search
• Shift + F1: favorites & back
• Shift + F2: settings & back

How it works

The app parses the data from OpenWeather API and displays them to the main window.
QStackedWidget is used to switch between all 3 windows of the app.
Favorite cities and settings are stored into the sqlite databases.

Screenshots

Main window

Settings window

Favorites window

Ways to improve the project

• Add accounts for every user to personalize the usage of the app
• Add forecast for a chosen time span(day, week, etc.)
• Use threads
• Make functions asynchronous using asyncio module

Installation

git clone https://github.com/TheBugYouCantFix/WeatherApp.git
cd WeatherApp
pip install -r requirements.txt

Get your token here

Open weather_parsing folder. Then go to config.py and insert your token into the TOKEN variable.

python main.py

GitHub

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