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Yahoo Weather getter
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import requests | |
def getWeather(city): | |
query = "select%20*%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid%20in%20(select%20woeid%20from%20geo.places(1)%20where%20text%3D%22"+ city +"%22)%20and%20u%3D%27c%27&format=json" | |
url = "https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=" + query | |
r=requests.get(url) | |
if r.json()['query']['results']!=None: | |
results = r.json()['query']['results']['channel'] | |
foundcity = results['location']['city'] | |
forecast = results['item']['forecast'] | |
current = results['item']['condition'] | |
else: | |
print("Error! Could not find results for " + city+ ". Instead, here is Bristol") | |
return(getWeather('Bristol')) | |
return({'city': foundcity, 'forecast': forecast, 'current': current}) | |
data = getWeather('Bristol') | |
''' | |
Things that getWeather() gives you: | |
data['city'] : the name of the city it actually found | |
data['forecast'] : a list of different forecasts | |
data['forecast'][0] is todays forcast and you can put at the end ['something'] where something is text, low, date, day, high | |
data['forecast'][3]['high'] is the highest temperature for in 3 days time | |
data['current']['something'] where something is temp or text | |
''' | |
#here is an example of what you could do | |
print("The temperature in " + data['city'] + " is currently " + data['current']['temp'] + " degrees.") |
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