Constructs a plain-language summary of the day’s weather, eg:
Slightly colder than yesterday. Light rain in the afternoon.
Or:
Same temperature as yesterday. Heavy rain between 4pm and 5pm. Windy.
Using XML data from yr.no, eg:
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Liverpool/forecast_hour_by_hour.xml
Maybe at some point it might also do something with the yr.no meteogram image:
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Liverpool/meteogram.png
- Requires Python and virtualenv.
- Create and activate a virtualenv. I call mine
weather
and I use virtualenvwrapper and this clever script to make entering the virtualenv as simple ascd
-ing into the right directory. pip install -r requirements.txt
If you set the script to run via a Cron command, remember that Cron will need to activate the virtualenv too.
The script uses requests
to pull in XML data from yr.no, and requests-cache
to ensure yr.no is only called once every 10 minutes, in line with their terms of use.