hubot-slack-rainfall-alert

A rainfall alert script for hubot-slack

Description

Post alerts on slack 30 minutes before it starts/stops raining(currently this script only supports locations in Japan).

Installation

• Go to your hubot-slack directory and run

npm install hubot-slack-rainfall-alert --save

to add hubot-slack-rainfall-alert to package.json of your hubot-slack

• Add hubot-slack-rainfall-alert to external-scripts.json of your hubot-slack

$ cat external-scripts.json
[
  ... ,
  "hubot-slack-rainfall-alert",
  ...
]

Configuration

Required API keys

• Yahoo API key for Map API/Rainfall API (https://e.developer.yahoo.co.jp/dashboard/)
  • YOLP(地図):気象情報API - Yahoo!デベロッパーネットワーク
  • YOLP(地図):Yahoo!スタティックマップAPI - Yahoo!デベロッパーネットワーク
  • YOLP(地図):Yahoo!ジオコーダAPI - Yahoo!デベロッパーネットワーク
• Google API key for ShortURL (https://console.developers.google.com/project)
  • URL Shortener  |  Google Developers

Required parameters

Envs

export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_YAHOO_APP_ID=[Your yahoo app id here]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_GOOGLE_API_KEY=[Your google api key here]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_CHANNEL_ID=[Channel ID (not name!!!) to post notifications ex: "C035AFECB" -> get id from https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.list/test ]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_THRESH=[Notification threshold for rainfall(mm/h). ex: "0.5"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_CRONTIME=[Describe how often you want to check the rainfall in cron format. ex: "0 */10 0,9-23 * * *"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LAT=[Latitude to check the rainfall. ex: "35.0000000"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LON=[Longitude to check the rainfall. ex: "139.8000000"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LAT_FOR_MAP=[Latitude to show in the map on notifications. Recommend to set the same value as HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LAT ex: "35.0000000"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LON_FOR_MAP=[Latitude to show in the map on notifications. Recommend to set about 0.8 degree smaller value than HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_LON so that you can see the incoming watery clouds in the map. ex: "139.0000000"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_IMAGE_WIDTH=[Image width for the map/graph. Recommend: "500"]
export HUBOT_RAINFALL_ALERT_IMAGE_HEIGHT=[Image height for the map. Recommend: "500"]

Special thanks

This script uses Yahoo APIs/Google APIs.