Alternative Weather Skill for Nanobot

A custom skill for your nanobot workspace that retrieves current weather, today's summary, and forecasts. It leverages the Open-Meteo API for accurate weather data, Nominatim for specific location geocoding, and IPify/IP-API for automatic host IP geolocation.

Automatic Skill Override

Because this skill is named weather, the nanobot will automatically prioritize and load it in place of the built-in weather skill. If you want to revert to built-in skill, you can simply remove weather directory under skills

Installation

Follow these steps to install the skill automatically into your nanobot workspace.

1. Navigate to your workspace: Open your terminal and ensure your current directory is the root of your nanobot workspace (the folder containing your skills directory).

cd /path/to/your/nanobot/workspace

2. Download the installer: Use wget to fetch the installation script directly from the repository.

wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SJK-py/nanobot-weather/main/install_weather.sh"

3. Execute the script: Make the script executable and run it to set up the directories and download the necessary files.

chmod +x install_weather.sh
./install_weather.sh

Once installed, your nanobot will automatically detect and load this weather skill.

How the Nanobot Uses It

When weather data is required, the nanobot uses the exec tool to run the helper Python script.

The nanobot will construct commands using the following syntax:

python3 [skill path]/scripts/weather.py <COMMAND> <PARAMETERS>

Note on Geolocation: If the --location parameter is omitted by the nanobot, the script automatically attempts to geolocate the host machine's IP address to provide local weather.

Available Commands

• today: Retrieves the daily weather summary for the current day.
• now: Retrieves the immediate current weather conditions.
• forecast: Retrieves future weather predictions at various time intervals.

Optional Parameters

• --location "<string>": Target location (e.g., "Seoul", "Paris, France").
• --imperial: Flag that changes units to Fahrenheit, mph, and inches (default is metric).
• --customparam "<string>": Comma-separated Open-Meteo parameters to fetch specific data points.
• --type <type>: (Forecast only) The interval of the forecast (minutely15, hourly, daily). Defaults to hourly.
• --count <number>: (Forecast only) Number of forecast units to retrieve. Defaults to 4.

Skill Output

• Success: The script outputs raw, formatted JSON directly from the Open-Meteo API. For easier interpretation by the LLM, standard weather_code integer values are automatically translated into human-readable strings (e.g., 61 becomes "Rain: Slight intensity").
• Error: If an API fails or a location cannot be found, the script safely exits and outputs a standard JSON error object (e.g., {"error": "Description of the error"}) so the nanobot doesn't crash trying to parse stdout.

Manual Usage (Optional)

Though designed for autonomous nanobot use, the helper script can be executed independently from the command line:

Get current weather based on your IP (Metric):

python3 [skill path]/scripts/weather.py now

Get an hourly forecast for the next 12 hours in London:

python3 [skill path]/scripts/weather.py forecast --location "London, UK" --type hourly --count 12

Get today's weather in Tokyo (Imperial unit of measure):

python3 [skill path]/scripts/weather.py today --location "Tokyo, Japan" --imperial

License

MIT