Elixir Project 1: Update user's status icon in Slack based on the current weather forecast for Varna

1. Authenticate with Slack using this link, choose users.profile:write scope, and save the returned access token
2. Create a script that makes GET request to https://api.darksky.net/forecast/[key]/[latitude],[longitude] where:

• key is API key from https://darksky.net/dev
• lat,long for Varna is 43.2095914,27.9133562

3. Map the returned weather icon to emoji shortcode like:

crescent_moon sunny mostly_sunny partly_sunny barely_sunny partly_sunny_rain
cloud rain_cloud thunder_cloud_and_rain lightning snow_cloud fog

4. Make POST request to https://api.slack.com/methods/users.profile.set using the access token and the emoji :shortcode:
5. Push the code to https://github.com/VarnaLab/slack-weather-status in separate branch with your name
6. Run the script with Crontab on every 5 minutes

Solutions

• valentin
• vyacheslav
• zecho
• simo