[plugins] Change weather API to OpenWeatherMap

johnmaguire / Cardinal

A Python IRC bot, designed to make adding functionality quick and simple. (est. 2013)

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[plugins] Change weather API to OpenWeatherMap #192

Closed obviyus closed 3 years ago

obviyus commented 3 years ago

Fixes #191.

Now uses the OpenWeatherMap API (docs) for weather data
By default, the API endpoint requires different parameters depending on whether the location is a city name, city id, geographical coordinates or a zip code. It might make sense to use something like geopy to get a standard lat/lon format for all locations.

johnmaguire commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this! There was a hiccup in that OpenWeatherMap doesn't seem to return the same location for many old queries - especially around zip codes.

I ended up implementing WeatherAPI.com as well. There's a toggle now, so either provider can be selected via configuration.