Exercise: Open WeatherMap client
- get API key
- It takes 10 minutes to activate the key, so do it now.
- Once you observerd that the code works, test it without internet access.
config.ini
[openweathermap] api=93712604
examples/weather/get_weather.py
import configparser import requests import sys def get_api_key(): config = configparser.ConfigParser() config.read('config.ini') return config['openweathermap']['api'] def get_weather(api_key, location): url = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={}&units=metric&appid={}".format(location, api_key) r = requests.get(url) return r.json() def main(): if len(sys.argv) != 2: exit("Usage: {} LOCATION".format(sys.argv[0])) location = sys.argv[1] api_key = get_api_key() weather = get_weather(api_key, location) print(weather) print(weather['main']['temp']) if __name__ == '__main__': main()