Pull data from darksky.net, and put it into influxdb, suitable for later pulling and graphing in Grafana, etc.
https://github.com/hawson/darksky2influxpy
The project https://github.com/SvenSommer/darksky2influxdb, does what I'd like, but is written in nodejs. I'm wanted something in Python, and nothing fit the bill. So all credit to that project for inspiration.
Setup is mostly simple, when run from a virtualene. There are two required modules: darkskylib influxdb
The super-simple "setup.sh" script should install these for you (it makes an virtualenv, and install the two modules).
You also need an API key from darksky.net: https://darksky.net/dev
The API key you recieve should be placed in a file "key.txt". Just the key on a single line is sufficient.
Both the current weather, and 48-hour forecast at that point in time are collected and put into sets of measurements in influxdb.
Also edit the "config" dictionary in dark_import.py to make a connection to your local influxdb install. The database will need to be configured ahead of time, of course.