This tutorial shows you how to download and install the pyowm python module.
One of the great things about using this python module let you to provide data from
openweathermap website (need to have one account).
PyOWM runs on Python 2.7 and Python 3.2+, and integrates with Django 1.10+ models.
All documentation can be found
here.
The install is simple with pip , python 2.7 and Fedora 25.
[root@localhost mythcat]# pip install pyowm
Collecting pyowm
Downloading pyowm-2.6.1.tar.gz (3.6MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.7MB 388kB/s
Building wheels for collected packages: pyowm
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyowm ... done
Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/9a/91/17/bb120c765f08df77645cf70a16aa372d5a297f4ae2be749e81
Successfully built pyowm
Installing collected packages: pyowm
Successfully installed pyowm-2.6.1
The source code is very simple just connect with API key and print data.
#/usr/bin/env python
#" -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import pyowm
print " Have a account to openweathermap.org and use with api key free or pro"
print " owm = pyowm.OWM(API_key='your-API-key', subscription_type='pro')"
owm = pyowm.OWM("327407589df060c7f825b63ec1d9a096")
forecast = owm.daily_forecast("Falticeni,ro")
tomorrow = pyowm.timeutils.tomorrow()
forecast.will_be_sunny_at(tomorrow)
observation = owm.weather_at_place('Falticeni,ro')
w = observation.get_weather()
print (w)
print " Weather details"
print " =============== "
print " Get cloud coverage"
print w.get_clouds()
print " ----------------"
print " Get rain volume"
print w.get_rain()
print " ----------------"
print " Get snow volume"
print w.get_snow()
print " Get wind degree and speed"
print w.get_wind()
print " ----------------"
print " Get humidity percentage"
print w.get_humidity()
print " ----------------"
print " Get atmospheric pressure"
print w.get_pressure()
print " ----------------"
print " Get temperature in Kelvin degs"
print w.get_temperature()
print " ----------------"
print " Get temperature in Celsius degs"
print w.get_temperature(unit='celsius')
print " ----------------"
print " Get temperature in Fahrenheit degs"
print w.get_temperature('fahrenheit')
print " ----------------"
print " Get weather short status"
print w.get_status()
print " ----------------"
print " Get detailed weather status"
print w.get_detailed_status()
print " ----------------"
print " Get OWM weather condition code"
print w.get_weather_code()
print " ----------------"
print " Get weather-related icon name"
print w.get_weather_icon_name()
print " ----------------"
print " Sunrise time (ISO 8601)"
print w.get_sunrise_time('iso')
print " Sunrise time (GMT UNIXtime)"
print w.get_sunrise_time()
print " ----------------"
print " Sunset time (ISO 8601)"
print w.get_sunset_time('iso')
print " Sunset time (GMT UNIXtime)"
print w.get_sunset_time()
print " ----------------"
print " Search current weather observations in the surroundings of"
print " Latitude and longitude coordinates for Fălticeni, Romania:"
observation_list = owm.weather_around_coords(47.46, 26.30)
Let's see and the result of running the python script for one random location:
[root@localhost mythcat]# python openweather.py
Have a account to openweathermap.org and use with api key free or pro
owm = pyowm.OWM(API_key='your-API-key', subscription_type='pro')
Weather details
===============
Get cloud coverage
20
----------------
Get rain volume
{}
----------------
Get snow volume
{}
Get wind degree and speed
{u'speed': 5.7, u'deg': 340}
----------------
Get humidity percentage
82
----------------
Get atmospheric pressure
{'press': 1021, 'sea_level': None}
----------------
Get temperature in Kelvin degs
{'temp_max': 287.15, 'temp_kf': None, 'temp': 287.15, 'temp_min': 287.15}
----------------
Get temperature in Celsius degs
{'temp_max': 14.0, 'temp_kf': None, 'temp': 14.0, 'temp_min': 14.0}
----------------
Get temperature in Fahrenheit degs
{'temp_max': 57.2, 'temp_kf': None, 'temp': 57.2, 'temp_min': 57.2}
----------------
Get weather short status
Clouds
----------------
Get detailed weather status
few clouds
----------------
Get OWM weather condition code
801
----------------
Get weather-related icon name
02d
----------------
Sunrise time (ISO 8601)
2017-03-24 04:08:33+00
Sunrise time (GMT UNIXtime)
1490328513
----------------
Sunset time (ISO 8601)
2017-03-24 16:33:59+00
Sunset time (GMT UNIXtime)
1490373239
----------------
Search current weather observations in the surroundings of
Latitude and longitude coordinates for Fălticeni, Romania: