Slack profile photo weather updater

This project updates your slack profile photo with a photo based on the weather.

Configuration

You need to provide:

• Two profile photos, with 500x500 resolution, and with a transparent background, for daytime and nighttime. By default, place them in profile_photos/jdoe_day.png and profile_photos/jdoe_night.png, for a slack configuration with name "jdoe".
• Environment variables:
  • Copy the config.toml.template file to config.toml.
  • Edit the variables:
    • [weatherprovider] section:
      • name: the name of the provider. Valid values are weatherstack and weatherapi.
      • api_access_key: the api key for your account on weatherstack.com or weatherapi.com.
    • [[slack]] sections:
      • name: a name for your slack configuration.
      • workspace: the slack workspace where you want to change your profile photo
      • token, cookie_d: see below.
    • [wspp] section:
      • latitude, longitude: the location for the weather conditions that will be used to fill in the background in your profile photo.

Retrieving the slack token and cookie values

• Log into slack in a browser on a computer.
• Enable developer tools in the browser, and open the network tab.
• Manually change your profile photo to any photo you want.
• Inspect the request in the developer tools network tab on the /api/users.setPhoto endpoint.
  • Copy the value of the token parameter into token in your config.toml file.
  • For the cookie_d env var, look at the cookie header, and extract the value of the d= part of the cookie.

Optional parameters

• profile_photos_dir: The directory containing your profile photos with the transparent background. it should contain a jdoe_day.png for daytime, and a jdoe_night.png for nighttime, for a slack configuration with name "jdoe". the default location is in profile_photos/ in the project.
• polling_interval_s: The frequency in seconds to update the profile photo. The default value is 7200.

Running the program

• Follow the setup described just above

Locally

• Setup a python environment
• Run python -m wspp.main

With Docker

Retrieve the docker image:

docker pull ghcr.io/caarmen/weather-slack-profile-photo:latest

Run the docker image. Indicate the host paths to your config.toml file and profile_photos folder.

docker run --detach -v `pwd`/config.toml:/app/config.toml -v `pwd`/profile_photos/:/app/profile_photos/ ghcr.io/caarmen/weather-slack-profile-photo

Image credits

• The night background photo is from Alexey Elfimov, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
• The weather background images were generated by Bing
• The sample profile photos were generated from the Bitmoji app.