/metar

METAR - current weather information for aviation

Primary LanguagePython

METAR - current weather information for aviation

Requirements

Python 2.7+, pip, Redis

How to run?

  1. Move to <project-dir>, create virual environment and then activate it as
$ cd <project-dir>
$ virtualenv .environment
$ source .environment/bin/activate
  1. Copy settings.sample.py and create settings.py. Default configuration/settings will suffice in most of the cases. Edit the configuration if required.

Note: step-1 is required because settings.py contains configurations & settings which can vary platform-to-plaform.

  1. Add project to PYTHONPATH as
$ export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:." # . corresponds to current directory(project-dir)
  1. Under <project-dir> install requirements/dependencies as
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Then run app.py as
$ python app.py

Now you can access the application by visiting http://localhost:8080 (default settings)

Note: You can change host and port under settings.py file.

Endpoints

Method URL Body Description
GET {host} NA Homepage
GET {host}/metar/ping NA 
{
 "data": "pong"
}
GET {host}/metar/info?scode={station_code}&nocache={0 or 1} NA Station report as - 
{
 "data": {
 "station": "KSGS",
 "last_observation": "2017/04/11 at 16:00 GMT",
 "temperature": "-1 C (30 F)",
 "wind": "S at 6 mph (5 knots)"
 }
}

Station codes can be found at http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations

Assumption: Assuming that metar endpoint will return reponse in foillowing format -

2001/11/17 15:38
KSGS 171538Z AUTO 19005KT 7SM CLR M01/M05 A3021 RMK AO2