[CentralOH] Code from last night's Beginner's Python talk

[Eric Floehr]

Pete,

Yes! But the free tier is limited to 500 requests per day, and there is
some data that isn't available.

More here: http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/

Best Regards,
Eric


On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Peter Carswell <pcarswell.1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I have forgotten from your discussion, does the free wunderground
> membership provide the json/xml service?
>
> pete
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
> wrote:
>
>> import urllib2
>>
>> # The API url to call
>> key = 'f6a..........15a'
>> url = '
>> http://api.wunderground.com/api/{key}/geolookup/conditions/q/France/Paris.json'.format(key=key)
>>
>> # Open the page and store as a string
>> page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>> json_string = page.read()
>> page.close()
>>
>> # Read the string and parse as JSON data
>> data = json.loads(json_string)
>>
>> # Pull out information from the JSON data
>> location = data['location']['city']
>> obs = data['current_observation']
>> temp_f = obs['temp_f']
>> condition = obs['weather']
>>
>> print("In {loc} it is {temp:.0f} and {cond}".format(loc=location,
>> temp=temp_f, cond=condition))
>>
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