mitchellkrogza / weather-api

A Python wrapper for the Yahoo Weather API. With the API, you can get up-to-date weather information for any location, including 5-day forecast, wind, atmosphere, astronomy conditions, and more.

weather-api

A Python wrapper for the Yahoo Weather API.

With the API, you can get up-to-date weather information for any location, including 5-day forecast, wind, atmosphere, astronomy conditions, and more. You can lookup weather by woeid, city name or lat/long.

For more detailed examples and tutorial, check out Yahoo Weather Developer Page. For more information, check out the API documentation.

Install

pip install weather-api

Examples

Lookup WOEID via http://weather.yahoo.com.

from weather import Weather, Unit

weather = Weather(unit=Unit.CELSIUS)

lookup = weather.lookup(560743)
condition = lookup.condition

print(condition.text)

Lookup via location name.

weather = Weather(unit=Unit.CELSIUS)
location = weather.lookup_by_location('dublin')
condition = location.condition
print(condition.text)

Get weather forecasts for the upcoming days.

weather = Weather(unit=Unit.CELSIUS)

forecasts = location.forecast
for forecast in forecasts:
    print(forecast.text)
    print(forecast.date)
    print(forecast.high)
    print(forecast.low)

Lookup via latitude and longitude

weather = Weather(Unit.CELSIUS)
lookup = w.lookup_by_latlng(53.3494,-6.2601)
condition = lookup.condition
print(condition.text)

CLI Usage

usage: weather [-h] [--unit [{c,f}]] location

positional arguments:
  location        The location to lookup.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  --unit [{c,f}]

Example

$ weather dublin --u c