This project is a Single Page Application which shows the overall weather over a given country at current time. It also captures public weather alerts from government data.
A live demo is available at https://victortorr.es/weather-wizard/.
This project uses data from OpenWeather and searches for public alerts from the following entities:
The file cities.json holds all the data for search. This file has the following format:
| OpenWeather ID | City Name | [Lat, Long] | Public Agency ID (for alerts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6167865 | "Toronto" | [43.7,-79.42] | "on-143" |
Weather is computed from OpenWeather API.
An API key from OpenWeather is required and it should be saved as api.key in the root folder.
Create an virtual environment:
virtualenv .venv
Run the setup.py file and project will be ready to use:
python setup.py develop
To get the weather of a specific city, an OpenWeather ID is required. Those IDs can be found at a bulk samples page or by using search_city() method:
from openweather import OpenWeatherMap
# Line below will show all existent Ottawas IDs (three in USA and one in Canada)
print([id_ for id_, country, coordinates in OpenWeatherMap.search_city("Ottawa")])After picking an ID, the weather resume method can be called like the following example:
from weatherwizard import WeatherWizard
ww = WeatherWizard(6094817) # Ottawa(CANADA)
print(ww.weather())Alerts can be added to the weather method response by adding the search_alerts flag:
ww.weather(search_alerts=True)Not all countries have public weather interfaces for this functionality and therefore a console message will be printed instead of an exception (for now).
Alerts are computed from different public entities. It uses the same city ID (from OpenWeather) to search for any active alert.
Its implementation is quite similar the weather function:
from alerts.alerts import Alerts
alert = Alerts(6167865) # Toronto
if alert.has_alert():
print(alert.get_message())An HTML interface was designed for this project to display many cities from some countries.
A server should be running in order to accept requests from the interface:
python server.py
Keep in mind that useful output can be printed when this process is open.
Open the index.html file to interact with available country data.