Here’s a simple Python code snippet for finding the weather condition of any given city using Google’s Weather API. It’s also published on GitHub if you want to clone it.
import urllib2
def getWeather(city):
#create google weather api url
url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=" + urllib2.quote(city)
try:
# open google weather api url
f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
except:
# if there was an error opening the url, return
return "Error opening url"
# read contents to a string
s = f.read()
# extract weather condition data from xml string
weather = s.split("<current_conditions><condition data=\"")[-1].split("\"")[0]
# if there was an error getting the condition, the city is invalid
if weather == "<?xml version=":
return "Invalid city"
#return the weather condition
return weather
def main():
while True:
city = raw_input("Give me a city: ")
weather = getWeather(city)
print(weather)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Update: GitHub is awesome because it allows very easy forking. Beau Martínez has made a fork of my script that includes Python 3 support, XML parsing instead of RegEx searching, and temperature reporting.
