Adding option for OpenWeatherMap API

[billmcc1280]

What are the odds of adding the option for OpenWeatherMap API? We each would have to get our own API key of course. I am able to get yahoo weather about three out of every ten attempts.

Thanks!

[skiwithpete]

I'm not against it.

Will you add it?

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:54 PM, billmcc1280 notifications@github.com wrote:

What are the odds of adding the option for OpenWeatherMap API? We each would have to get our own API key of course. I am able to get yahoo weather about three out of every ten attempts.

Thanks!

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[billmcc1280]

I will give it a valiant attempt. :)

[mat-v]

I've experienced the same problem. The issue with Yahoo returning null is also described here and in various other places.

I've been looking into using the wunderground API as a solution. Unfortunately I am complete new in this area s it takes some time to figure things out.

After requesting a key from wunderground your request URL will look like this: http://api.wunderground.com/api/41c***my API-key***/forecast/lang:EN/q/Germany/Berlin.json

And the response will look something like the code below. It shouldn't be too hard to mod the get_weather_yahoo.py to read the correct data from the wunderground json file but I didn't try yet.

Hope this comment is off some value to you! Please keep us posted about the progress, I will do so too :)

{
  "response": {
  "version":"0.1",
  "termsofService":"http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html",
  "features": {
  "forecast": 1
  }
    }
        ,
    "forecast":{
        "txt_forecast": {
        "date":"9:48 AM CET",
        "forecastday": [
        {
        "period":0,
        "icon":"cloudy",
        "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/cloudy.gif",
        "title":"Saturday",
        "fcttext":"Overcast. Temps nearly steady in the mid 30s. Winds light and variable.",
        "fcttext_metric":"Generally cloudy. High 2C. Winds light and variable.",
        "pop":"10"
        }
        ,
        {
        "period":1,
        "icon":"nt_partlycloudy",
        "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_partlycloudy.gif",
        "title":"Saturday Night",
        "fcttext":"Mostly cloudy skies this evening will become partly cloudy after midnight. Widespread frost likely. Low 27F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.",
        "fcttext_metric":"Considerable clouds this evening. Some decrease in clouds late. Widespread frost likely. Low -3C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h.",
        "pop":"10"
        }
        ,
        {
        "period":2,
        "icon":"partlycloudy",
        "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/partlycloudy.gif",
        "title":"Sunday",
        "fcttext":"Partly cloudy skies. High 33F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.",
        "fcttext_metric":"Partly cloudy skies. High 1C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h.",
        "pop":"10"
        }
        ,
        {
        "period":3,
        *** ETCETERA ***
    "epoch":"1485021600",
    "pretty":"7:00 PM CET on January 21, 2017",
    "day":21,
    "month":1,
    "year":2017,
    "yday":20,
    "hour":19,
    "min":"00",
    "sec":0,
    "isdst":"0",
    "monthname":"January",
    "monthname_short":"Jan",
    "weekday_short":"Sat",
    "weekday":"Saturday",
    "ampm":"PM",
    "tz_short":"CET",
    "tz_long":"Europe/Berlin"
},
        "period":1,
        "high": {
        "fahrenheit":"37",
        "celsius":"3"
        },
        "low": {
        "fahrenheit":"27",
        "celsius":"-3"
        },
        "conditions":"Overcast",
        "icon":"cloudy",
        "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/cloudy.gif",
        "skyicon":"",
        "pop":10,
        "qpf_allday": {
        "in": 0.00,
        "mm": 0
        },
        *** ETCETERA ***