Geolocation

[jmtellez]

When no command is passed, cli-mate should return weather data from where the user is located.

[aaronzshey]

If you're using a bash script, you could try something like:

ipaddr=curl ipecho.net/plain ; echo
curl https://freegeoip.app/xml/$ipaddr

I can help!

In fact, you don't even need to get the ip address - curling the bare freegeoip address will default to the host iP.

[jmtellez]

you can make the request with node. LMK and I can assign it to you.

[aaronzshey]

yes, we can use node-fetch instead to gather geolocation information - freegeoip.app returns longitude and latitude. If you can give me a pull request, I can do that right now. For now, I'll just fork it.

[jmtellez]

Use postman-request

[aaronzshey]

Thanks. Please send a pull request when you can.

[jmtellez]

Fork the project and then open PR when you are done!

[aaronzshey]

@jmtellez How do I link the fork to a PR? 😅 Sorry, I've never worked with pull requests before.

[jmtellez]

Push your changes to your forked repo, then head over to the original repo and click on Pull request tab and create a PR. Select the branch you are wanting to merge your code to and add me as a reviewer.

Here is a detailed doc on how to do it: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-pull-request-on-github

[aaronzshey]

Thanks! I noticed this in the code:

switch (location) {
  case undefined:

How would we differentiate between showing the menu when the location is undefined, and automatically getting the IP address?

[jmtellez]

What you can do is create a function like utils/geocode.js and instead of hitting map box endpoint hit freegeoip endpoint. We can call that function and still get lat and Lon then call forecast(). No need to show the menu once this is implemented

[aaronzshey]

freegeoip only returns city - I'll see if I can get the city out of freegeoip, and then hopefully pass that back into the other endpoints.

[jmtellez]

You can pass city to forecast() it should work

[aaronzshey]

@jmtellez the function works for now - I'll try to pass the city in tomorrow.

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[arpitvaghela]

location can be an optional argument as we are implementing this

[aaronzshey]

@arpitvaghela that's handled with the switch statements. @jmtellez Did you see #8 ?

[arpitvaghela]

I am trying to solve the #11, will change my implementation to support this as well

[cosmoimai]

Sir we just have to use geolocation for that. Is it?

[cosmoimai]

sir, we have to provide your own token? because it is not working means that process.env.MAPBOX is not working in geocode line 7

[aaronzshey]

@cosmoimai did you generate your own api keys? Also @arpitvaghela how should we implement the automatic geolocation with the unit flags?

[cosmoimai]

@CarlyRaeJepsenStan Sir I think we have to generate our own api key or some sort of token i think Through some request

[aaronzshey]

@cosmoimai what kind of errors are you receiving?

[jmtellez]

@cosmoimai you need to create both weatherstack and mapbox api keys and set their corresponding env vars.

[cosmoimai]

@CarlyRaeJepsenStan sir, actually it is giving unable to locate

[aaronzshey]

Using the autolocation:

/* 
== Autolocation - should be fired on case undefined

const autoLocate = require("./utils/autolocate")

autoLocate((err, city) => {
 //console.log(city) ;

case geocode, etc.
})

==
*/

Placed here for future reference.

[aaronzshey]

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