Rancho2002 / fastest

Weather Information Retrieval

This Markdown file demonstrates how to retrieve weather information for a specific city using the requests library in Python. The code fetches the weather information for the city "Kolkata" from the wttr.in website and prints the response text.

Architecture Flow Description

The architectural flow for retrieving weather information using the requests library is as follows:

1. Define the city for which you want to retrieve weather information. In this example, we use the city "Kolkata".

2. Construct the URL by formatting the city name into the https://wttr.in/{city} format.

3. Use the requests.get() function to send a GET request to the constructed URL.

4. Retrieve the response using the .text attribute of the response object.

5. Print the response text, which contains the weather information for the specified city.

Code Example

import requests

city = "Kolkata"

url = "https://wttr.in/{}".format(city)

res = requests.get(url)

print(res.text)

Using GitHub Copilot

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5. Parsing JSON: Copilot have suggested me using the json method on the response object to extract the JSON data and convert it into a Python dictionary.

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