Australian Weather Data (from bom.gov.au)
Project description
Australian Weather Data (using bom.gov.au)
Access to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather data.
Currently a work in progress subject to breaking changes!
Purpose
The purpose of these modules is to fetch weather data from various Australian Bureau of Meteorology websites.
Weather API
Fetches data from the API's at api.weather.bom.gov.au
(e.g. Parkville 3-hourly forecast).
This information has been reverse engineered from the beta website with no information about future access arrangements, content or availability.
Example using WeatherApi
from weather_au import api
w = api.WeatherApi(search='parkville+vic', debug=0)
location = w.location()
print(f"\nLocation: {location['name']} {location['state']}, timezone:{location['timezone']}\n")
for warn in w.warnings():
print(f"Warning short title: {warn['short_title']}")
warning = w.warning(id=warn['id'])
print(f"Warning title: {warning['title']}")
observations = w.observations()
print(f"\nObservations (temp): {observations['temp']:2}")
forecast_rain = w.forecast_rain()
print(f"Forecast Rain: amount:{forecast_rain['amount']}, chance:{forecast_rain['chance']}")
print('\n3 Hourly:')
for f in w.forecasts_3hourly():
print(f"{f['time']} temp:{f['temp']:2}, {f['icon_descriptor']}")
Example using Summary
from weather_au import summary
print(summary.Summary(search='parkville+vic'))
XML and Scraping
Modules:
observations
- fetch XML formatted data from the BOM FTP server.uv_index
- fetch the UV data from the XML encoded state based IDZ00107-IDZ00113 products.place
- scrape data from location based pages.
Sample for Parkville in Melbourne Vic Australia
from weather import place, observations, uv_index
# Parse http://www.bom.gov.au/places/vic/parkville
place_data = place.Place('vic', 'parkville')
print(place_data.acknowedgment)
station_id = place_data.station_id()
print('Station ID',station_id)
air_temperature = place_data.air_temperature()
print('Air Temperature', air_temperature)
forecast = place_data.forecast()
print('Forecast', forecast)
uv_data = uv_index.UvIndex('Vic')
print('\n' + uv_data.acknowedgment)
location_name = 'Melbourne'
uv_message = uv_data.uv_message(uv_data.get_aac(location_name))
print('UV Message for', location_name, uv_message)
Disclaimer
This project is not related to or endorsed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
From the BOM copyright notice: Where no terms of use are associated with a set of material, then you may download, use and copy that material for personal use, or use within your organisation but you may not supply that material to any other person or use it for any commercial purpose.
Usage
Additional examples are in the examples
folder.
URL's
- Base for anon FTP data
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/
- Capital City Observations - VIC - Melbourne (Olympic Park)
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60901/IDV60901.95936.json
- where
IDV60901
is the product, and 95936
is the weather station id.
- where
- Weather Observations - VIC - Melbourne (Olympic Park)
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60910/IDV60910.95936.json
http://www.bom.gov.au/places/vic/parkville/
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