Follow the snow

This is the app that builds the static site for Follow the Snow. It goes through a list of ski resorts and locations to get the snow report (inches fallen).

Usage

Building the site will take awhile. The OpenWeather API is used to get information about current and upcoming snow conditions. They rate limit pretty heavily, so a sleep is put in between every API call.

This will manually build the site.

bundle install
rake build # or rake fast
ruby -run -ehttpd docs/ -p8000

Then commit the changed pages, which will be deployed as a static site via Github Pages and Cloudflare.

The page is build every morning from 6am MST, so that latest snow totals for the day are available. This is using Github Actions to do so.

Test

Everything is tested because it should be.

bundle install
bundle exec rspec

Sources

All the resorts are in CSV files in resorts/ by country. They are scraped via rake scrape from respective Wikipedia pages.

Notes

Exploring getting information from website via scraping. Haven't done it because it would cost money.

document.body.querySelectorAll(
  "nav,header,footer,form,button,iframe,script,[role]",
).forEach((node) => node.remove());
document.body.textContent.trim().replace(/\s+/g, " ");

Using this content into an ChatGPT prompt:

Please identify the current conditions reported at the resort. Include details of snow depth, if the resort is open, etc. Please put it in a JSON format, where the keys are simple to infer camel case keys.