karlasanc / email-digest

0 stars 0 forks source link

Email Recipient: Weather Forecast #4

Open karlasanc opened 1 year ago

karlasanc commented 1 year ago

User Type : Email Recipient Goal : Receive weather forecast Reason / Benefit : Know how to dress for the day

Stored weather information locally
- CSV
- JSON - provide hierarchical structure
- XML - provide hierarchical structure

Disadvantage: Will not be current, not automated

Use python web scraping library to scrap weather information from a site
- Library: Scrapy or Beautiful Soup
- Website: weather.com
Search Python Package Index for python library to pull weather data from online source
- pypy.org
Online source of weather info with API to directly call from program
- openweathermap.org Disadvantage: More Manual than to use python library

karlasanc commented 1 year ago

openweathermap.org

will call website API directly in code
website requires registration to get API key to get service : free access tier
API documentation can be requested by city name, id#, geographic coordinates, or zip code