adamfast / python-tweetar

This project has a very simple purpose - post the current METAR according to the National Weather Service to twitter, 
where it can be subscribed to by any interested parties.
This library is not intended to be used by its users or their end users for flight planning purposes. Remember your 
training and get your weather briefing from a certified source. If you don't know where to get weather, you can find a 
flight instructor at https://www.aopa.org/learntofly/findcfi/ and they will be happy to teach you about aviation weather 
and other aspects of aviation.
Dependencies on your PythonPath:
  python-twitter    https://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
Procedure:
  * Edit tweetar.py and replace <station_id>, <twitter_user> and <twitter_pass> with the appropriate values. If you want 
  to report multiple stations, copy and paste the line as many times as necessary and change the values as appropriate.
  
  * retrieve_and_post({'station': '<station_id>', 'twitter_user': '<twitter_user>', 'twitter_password': 
  '<twitter_pass>'})
  * Schedule "/path/to/python /path/to/tweetar.py" to run. My recommendation is once an hour - if you follow the METARs 
  of your local station you'll know when it updates. It's best to schedule a pull 5-10 minutes after that time, the 
  update across NWS is not instant.  Scheduling it so far out will miss SPECI updates, but will be a good internet 
  citizen since those occur so rarely on average (at least where I'm from). If you schedule it to run more often note 
  Twitter's API will filter updates identical to the last post - so you won't flood the subscribers to the feed. But I 
  wouldn't consider shifting that burden to them as totally fair. Could this script cache the last version and see if 
  there's been a change? Sure, but you're still making a lot of noop requests to the NWS. Do what you will, that's my 
  stance on it. Your mileage and experience may vary.
Advanced Procedure:
  Alternately, if you'd like to avoid editing the tweetar.py file in case there are ever updates to it, create a new 
  Python script of your own (mine's called tweetar_custom.py) and do something like this, adding as many 
  retrieve_and_post calls as necessary for the stations you're "hosting":
BEGIN FILE
from tweetar import *
# this is so I don't have to change the raw tweetar.py to my users/passwords
retrieve_and_post({'station': 'station1', 'twitter_user': 'station1_user', 'twitter_password': 'station1_password'})
retrieve_and_post({'station': 'station2', 'twitter_user': 'station2_user', 'twitter_password': 'station2_password'})
END FILE
I'm doing it this way so I don't accidentally commit usernames/passwords into public sight.