The personal newsletter you read with your morning coffee ☕️. A simple tool that daily fetches and sends them directly to slack:
- Covid cases data
- Weather forecast
- Top Stories from hackernews
You can use the below configuration to personalize what the tool delivers to slack.
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
COVID_API_BASE_URL |
link | This was added in case the base url will changed from the other side. The data structure is more or less hard coded. |
COVID_COUNTRIES |
GR |
Comma seperated list of iso3166 country codes to fetch data. |
MONGO_CONNECTION_STRING |
No default but required | The connection string for the mongo cluster to cache data. I plan to make this optional |
MONGO_DATABASE |
news |
The database to cache the data |
SLACK_TOKEN |
- | Required. The slack app token to post to slack. |
SLACK_CHANNEL |
news |
The channel to post the newsletter on slack. Make sure it exists! |
HACKERNEWS_BASE_URL |
hn firebase | The base url to fetch hackenews posts |
HACKERNEWS_STORIES_LIMIT |
5 | Amount hackenews stories to pull. |
WEATHER_BASE_URL |
WeatherApi | The base url of the weather api. WeatherApi is used |
WEATHER_LOCATIONS |
Thessaloniki | Comma separated list of locations to pull weather forecast for. |
WEATHER_API_TOKEN |
None but required | The api token to authenticate to the weather api. Grab one by registering here |
These are my first steps with golang so a lot of things can be greatly improved or may not make so much sense currently 🤷🏽♂️