requests-forecast 1.0.0

A minimalist Forecast.io API client.

requests-forecast

For complete docs and API options see: https://developer.forecast.io/docs/v2

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• requests

Installation

To install requests-forecast, simply:

$ pip install requests-forecast

Documentation

• Development version: http://requests-forecast.rtfd.org.

Quickstart

Creating a client

from requests_forecast import Forecast
forecast = Forecast(apikey='YOUR-API-KEY')

Getting the current conditions

current = forecast.currently()
print current['temperature']
58.9

Getting minutely conditions

current = forecast.minutely()
current['summary']
u'Mostly cloudy for the hour.'
current['data'][0].keys()
[u'precipIntensity', u'time']

Getting hourly conditions

current = forecast.hourly()
current['temperature']
59.52
forecast.hourly()['summary']
Mostly cloudy until tomorrow afternoon.
forecast.hourly()['data'][0]['temperature']
59.52

Getting daily conditions

forecast.daily()['summary']
u'Mixed precipitation off-and-on throughout the week; temperatures peaking at 70\xb0 on Sunday.'
forecast.daily()['data'][0]['temperatureMax']
63.85
forecast.daily()['data'][0]['temperatureMin']
35.05

Getting alerts

forecast.alerts()
{
  "expires": 1366898400,
  "uri": "http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=KS124EFAC89CD0.FreezeWarning.124EFAD6F320KS.TOPNPWTOP.8ab7d76a4db42b9136a1a6849a631097",
  "title": "Freeze Warning for Douglas, KS"
}

Example usage

from datetime import datetime
from requests_forecast import Forecast

forecast = Forecast(apikey='YOUR-API-KEY')
data = forecast.get(latitude=38.9717, longitude=-95.235)

forecast.currently()['temperature']
58.9

data = forecast.get(latitude=38.9717, longitude=-95.235,
time=datetime(year=2013, month=12, day=29))

forecast.currently()['temperature']
58.9

forecast.currently()['temperature']
36.75

License

New BSD