I recently saw Kris's omg.lol profile page↗ with integrated live local weather conditions, and I thought that was exceptionally neat. I immediately wanted to do the same with data from my Weatherflow Tempest weather station↗, but wasn't sure how I could do that without putting my API token in the browser. So I promptly abandoned the idea and moved on to other things.

I later realized that I could use another system to grab data from the authenticated API, and post that somewhere world-readable for the profile page to retrieve it.

So I cobbled together a sort of API proxy: a simple Forgejo Actions workflow↗ that runs every 15 minutes. It uses secrets stored securely in my Forgejo repo to fetch the weather data from the Weatherflow Tempest API↗, filters for just the current conditions data (not the giant mess of future-forecast details), and posts that to my paste.lol pastebin↗.

I could then use JavaScript to retrieve the weather details from the pastebin. I cobbled together a quick local HTML page↗ for testing as I worked through how to get the data displayed and formatted correctly.

Once I got the scripting sorted out, I was able to easily transfer the script block and relevant spans to my omg.lol profile page↗ - where I think it looks quite dope, if I do say so myself.

Big thanks to Kris↗ for the inspiration and the examples I needed to get this working.

Update: I've shared more details on how this all works over at the bigger blog, and the code is available on my Forgejo↗.