🌦️ Weather Chatbot

A simple and interactive web application built with Streamlit to fetch and display real-time weather and a 5-day forecast using the OpenWeatherMap API.

🌟 Features

• Real-time Weather: Fetches current temperature, humidity, wind speed, and condition.
• 5-Day Forecast: Displays daily weather summaries.
• Interactive UI: Powered by Streamlit for a fast, user-friendly experience.
• Secure API Handling: Uses environment variables and Streamlit Secrets for key management.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python 3.10+
• Streamlit (Web App Framework)
• Requests (HTTP Library for API calls)
• Python-dotenv (Local environment management)
• OpenWeatherMap API (Data source)

📂 Project Structure

weather_chatbot/
├── .gitignore           # Ignores local secrets (.env) and environment folders (.venv)
├── app.py               # Main application logic and Streamlit UI
├── requirements.txt     # List of all Python dependencies
└── README.md            # Project documentation

⚙️ Local Setup

Follow these steps to run the application on your local machine.

1. Clone the Repository and Set Up Environment

git clone(https://github.com/codebyrks/weather_chatbot.git)

2. Create and Activate a Virtual Environment

# Example for Mac/Linux
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Example for Windows
python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install Dependencies

#Install all necessary libraries:
pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure API Key

You must have a key from OpenWeatherMap. 1.Create a file named .env in the root directory (where app.py is located). 2.Add your API key using the exact variable name expected by app.py:

# .env file content
OPENWEATHER_API_KEY="your-open-weather-api-key-here"

5. Run the Application

streamlit run app.py

The app should open automatically in your web browser.