Project Description

This project has as purpose to allow you to send messages with the weather forecast to your cellphone daily. The technologies that we are going to use are:

• Twilio, for to send messages
• AWS EC2, for deployment
• python

Prerequisites

• A Twilio account with PHONE NUMBER, ACCOUNT SSID, and AUTH TOKEN. See Twilio Web
• A Weather Api account with API KEY. See Weather Api
• An AWS EC2 instance. See Amazon AWS

How to run the project

To run locally

1. Clone this repo
2. Rename twilio_config_TEMPLATE.py file to twilio_config.py and complete with your data.

To run in AWS EC2

1. Enter EC2 Instance and run the following commands:

   $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
   $ sudo apt install -y python3-pip
   $ git clone your-repo
   $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

2. Rename twilio_config_TEMPLATE.py file to twilio_config.py and complete with your data.

How to use

Locally

• Run the script send_message.py

In AWS EC2

• You can create a cronjob to automatically run the script daily.