Introduction: Get Weather Data Using Python and Openweather API
Prerequisite:
- API key and url from openweather site.
- Request (for HTTP requests) library for Python.
Step 1: Get API Key and URL From Openweather.org
- Create account in https://openweathermap.org
- After you login you will get the API key as shown in image.
- Go to the API option
- Go to API doc option as shown in image.
- Now copy the link to paste it in the pyhton code.
Step 2: Install Request Library for Python
- Open cmd and type this (pip install requests)
- now open pyhton shell
- And type import requests
- if there is no error you are good to go.
Step 3: Python Code
import requests city = input("Enter City:") url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={}&appid={Enter your API key here}&units=metric'.format(city) res = requests.get(url) data = res.json() humidity = data['main']['humidity'] pressure = data['main']['pressure'] wind = data['wind']['speed'] description = data['weather'][0]['description'] temp = data['main']['temp'] print('Temperature:',temp,'°C') print('Wind:',wind) print('Pressure: ',pressure) print('Humidity: ',humidity) print('Description:',description)