Created Cron job to get data from external api every 15 minutes and save it to local database. Created Weather model and controller to get latest weather status

utils/getExternalWeather.js

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+const Config = require('../models/Config');
+const Weather = require('../models/Weather');
+const axios = require('axios');
+
+const getExternalWeather = async () => {
+  // Get API key from database
+  let secret = await Config.findOne({
+    where: { key: 'WEATHER_API_KEY' }
+  });
+
+  if (!secret) {
+    console.log('API key was not found');
+    return;
+  }
+
+  secret = secret.value;
+
+  // Fetch data from external API
+  try {
+    const res = await axios.get(`http://api.weatherapi.com/v1/current.json?key=${secret}&q=52.229676,21.012229`);
+
+    // For dev
+    // console.log(res.data);
+
+    // Save weather data
+    const cursor = res.data.current;
+    await Weather.create({
+      externalLastUpdate: cursor.last_updated,
+      tempC: cursor.temp_c,
+      tempF: cursor.temp_f,
+      isDay: cursor.is_day,
+      conditionText: cursor.condition.text,
+      conditionCode: cursor.condition.code
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log(err);
+    console.log('External API request failed');
+    return;
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = getExternalWeather;

utils/jobs.js

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+const schedule = require('node-schedule');
+const getExternalWeather = require('./getExternalWeather');
+
+const weatherJob = schedule.scheduleJob('updateWeather', '0 */15 * * * *', async () => {
+  try {
+    await getExternalWeather();
+    console.log('weather updated');
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log(err);
+  }
+})