🌦️ Weather Broadcast — Smart Weather & Farming Assistant

Short description A smart web application that combines real-time weather updates, an intelligent chatbot, and data-driven farming insights to help users make informed decisions about vegetable cultivation and planting times.

Features

• Real-time weather updates
  • Fetches live weather data based on the user’s current location (or a searched location).
  • Displays: temperature, humidity, wind speed, rainfall, and forecast.
• Smart Chatbot Assistant
  • Ask weather- and farming-related questions.
  • Suggests suitable vegetables and cultiva. tion tips based on weather and season.
• Smart Crop Suggestions
  • Enter a location to receive vegetables best suited for that region.
  • Recommendations use local climate and seasonal trends.
• Vegetable Planning Tool
  • Search any vegetable and see best months for planting and growing.
  • Helps plan efficient, seasonal cultivation.

Tech stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Weather API: OpenWeatherMap API
• Chatbot Integration: Dialogflow or GPT-style API
• Location services: Browser Geolocation API

Installation & setup

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/deekshi275/weather-broadcast.git
2. Navigate into the project directory cd weather-broadcast
3. Install dependencies npm install
4. Create a .env file in the project root and add required API keys (example below)
5. Start the development server npm start

Example .env REACT_APP_WEATHER_API_KEY=your_openweathermap_api_key REACT_APP_CHATBOT_API_KEY=your_dialogflow_or_gpt_api_key

Add any other keys or config values required by your app

Usage

• Allow location access in your browser to get current-location weather.
• Use the chatbot UI to ask questions about weather, crops, and planting.
• Use the vegetable planner to view recommended planting months per crop.

Development notes (optional)

• If you use a build step: npm run build
• To run tests (if configured): npm test

Contributing Contributions welcome. Please open an issue or submit a pull request with a clear description of your changes.

License This project is available under the MIT License.

Credits

• OpenWeatherMap for weather data
• Dialogflow / GPT for chatbot integration (if used)

Contact

• Maintainer: deekshi275.