import datetime import os.path import requests def get_weather_json(lat, lon): """ fetches weather from the Norwegian meteorological institute for a given latitude and longitude. Returns an object with a 3-day forecast with morning, afternoon, evening and overnight periods. NOTE: This is not tidied up. Use get_forecast for nicer formatted stuff. """ url = "https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/1.9/.json" params = { "lat": lat, "lon": lon } # https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/1.9/.json?lat=52.50639&lon=13.4063 resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params) return resp.json() def get_forecast(lat, lon): """ returns a list of forecast dicts: forecast = { "fromtime": datetime, "totime": datetime, "symbol": "pathto.svg", "mintemp": "12.7", "maxtemp": "16.8", "period": "Morning"} """ thisdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) periods = {6: "Morning", 12: "Afternoon", 18: "Evening", 0: "Night"} # Berlin - "52.5", "13.4" w = get_weather_json(lat, lon) forecasts = [] for t in w["product"]["time"]: # need to strip the trainling 'Z' char which indicates UTC fr = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(t["from"][:-1]) to = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(t["to"][:-1]) dtdelta = datetime.date.today() - fr.date() if dtdelta == datetime.timedelta(days=0): day_of = "Today" elif dtdelta == datetime.timedelta(days=-1): day_of = "Tomorrow" else: days = ("Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday") day_of = days[fr.weekday()] if fr.hour not in (0, 6, 12, 18): continue if(to-fr == datetime.timedelta(hours=6)): mintemp = t["location"]["minTemperature"]["value"] maxtemp = t["location"]["maxTemperature"]["value"] symbol = t["location"]["symbol"]["id"].lower() png = symbol if fr.hour in (18, 0): symbol += "-night.svg" png += "-night.png" else: symbol += ".svg" png += ".png" icon = os.path.join(thisdir, "weather_icons", symbol) png = os.path.join(thisdir, "weather_icons", png) forecast = {"fromtime": fr, "totime": to, "symbol": icon, "mintemp": mintemp, "maxtemp": maxtemp, "png": png, "period": periods[fr.hour], "day": day_of} forecasts.append(forecast) return forecasts if __name__ == "__main__": from pprint import pprint pprint(get_forecast("52.5","13.4"))