BraydenTW / weather-to-csv

A web scraper built with Python and BS4 that gathers weather forecast data 🌡 and converts it to CSV.

weather-to-csv

A web scraper built with Python and BS4 that gathers weather forecast data and converts it to CSV.

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Prerequisites

Make sure you have Python installed.

Once finished, fork this repository and run the following command in your terminal:

python scraper.py

Doing this, there will be an output in your terminal and a .csv file automatically generated with the given forecast data. (weather.csv)

Customize the location 📍

Currently, the location is set on San Francisco, CA. In order to change where you want it:

1. Go to https://forecast.weather.gov.
2. Search for the city/town you want.
3. Copy the URL and paste it into the requests.get() function.

page = requests.get('') # Change this URL with a valid location from https://forecast.weather.gov/

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This was not orignally created by me. This was made by following a tutorial from CleverProgrammer's Python Course.