In this article, you’ll learn how to check weather forecasts using python
Prerequisites
What is wttr?
- wttr – the right way to check the weather
- wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (curl, httpie, or wget), HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.
- wttr.in uses wego for visualization and various data sources for weather forecast information.
Install Necessary Modules:
Open your Anaconda Prompt and type and run the following command (individually):
pip install requests
requests
is a simple, yet elegant HTTP library. It allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. Requests officially support Python 2.7 & 3.5+.
Once Installed now we can import it inside our python code.
Source Code:
''' Python Program to Check Weather Forecast ''' # Import the necessary modules! import requests # Input the city name city = input('Enter City name: ') # Or you can also hard-code the value # city = 'Irkutsk' # Display the message print('Displaying Weater report for: ' + city) # Fetch the weater details url = 'https://wttr.in/{}'.format(city) # Use of format to pass city as a parameter here res = requests.get(url) # Make use of the requests module # Display the result # Resultant data is stored in res. # Use of the text method to extract our desired weather details to display the result print(res.text)
Output:
Enter City name: California
Displaying Weater report for: California
Weather report: California
\ / Clear
.-. 25 °C
― ( ) ― → 11 km/h
`-’ 16 km
/ \ 0.0 mm
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sat 24 Jul ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │
│ _ /"".-. 25 °C │ _ /"".-. +29(27) °C │ _ /"".-. 26 °C │ _ /"".-. +22(24) °C │
│ \_( ). ↗ 7-8 km/h │ \_( ). ↗ 13-15 km/h │ \_( ). → 6-7 km/h │ \_( ). ↗ 3-7 km/h │
│ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │
│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.1 mm | 46% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sun 25 Jul ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Partly cloudy │ _`/"".-. Patchy light d…│ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │
│ _ /"".-. +26(25) °C │ ,\_( ). +28(27) °C │ _ /"".-. +24(25) °C │ _ /"".-. 20 °C │
│ \_( ). ↗ 6-8 km/h │ /(___(__) ↗ 12-14 km/h │ \_( ). → 6-7 km/h │ \_( ). ↖ 5-10 km/h │
│ /(___(__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 8 km │ /(___(__) 9 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │
│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 24% │ 0.3 mm | 51% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Mon 26 Jul ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Partly cloudy │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain po…│ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │
│ _ /"".-. +23(24) °C │ ,\_( ). 25 °C │ _ /"".-. +22(24) °C │ _ /"".-. 18 °C │
│ \_( ). ↗ 6-8 km/h │ /(___(__) ↗ 10-12 km/h │ \_( ). ↑ 9-11 km/h │ \_( ). ↙ 5-12 km/h │
│ /(___(__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ /(___(__) 9 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │
│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.0 mm | 26% │ 0.1 mm | 46% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
Location: California, United States of America [36.7014631,-118.7559973]
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