Open jessehamner opened 3 years ago
Started work. Have implemented "points" and "stations", and written results to a test YAML file. Need to conform names to existing variable names. Should enable simpler and more robust code.
Relevant pages on NWS API and XML schema:
Have conformed NWS variable names to existing YAML variable names. Need to create a separate configuration command-line option to avoid configuring the settings.yml
file every time.
It's possible to use several web API calls (with JSON returns) to determine many abbreviations, location identifiers, and settings that are currently entered by hand in
settings.yml
. The script should provide a one-time or on-demand functionality to retrieve as many of these settings as possible to simplify setup. Many locally applicable settings are contained in these API URLS:See especially