Weather API Wrapper Service with Redis Cache

Overview

This project is a Weather API Wrapper Service built using FastAPI. It integrates with a third-party weather API to fetch current weather data for a given location. To improve performance and reduce the number of requests to the third-party API, Redis is used for caching the weather data.

Features

• Fetch current weather data for a specified location.
• Cache weather data using Redis with a configurable expiration time.
• Automatically expire cached data after 12 hours to ensure data freshness.

Project Structure

fast_weather/
├── fast_weather/
|    ├── main.py
|    ├── cache.py
|    ├── weather.py
├── .venv
├── .env
└── pyproject.toml

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory with the following content:

API_KEY: Your API key for the weather API. weather-api

API_KEY=your_weather_api_key
REDIS_HOST=localhost
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_DB=0

Clone the repository:

git clone <repository_url>
cd weather_api_wrapper

Install dependencies:

poetry install

Activate the virtual environment:

poetry shell

Run the application:

fastapi dev fast_weather/main.py