I started to play with web scraping in Python, this is pretty neat. I can grab an extended forecast from weatherunderground for any city and display this in my bash shell. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so much fun and capabilities.
Here is a sample of the raw JSON from the API request.
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{ "response": { "version":"0.1", "termsofService":"http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html", "features": { "forecast": 1 } } , "forecast":{ "txt_forecast": { "date":"3:23 AM EDT", "forecastday": [ { "period":0, "icon":"partlycloudy", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/partlycloudy.gif", "title":"Monday", "fcttext":"Sunshine and clouds mixed. High near 75F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.", "fcttext_metric":"Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 24C. Winds WNW at 15 to 30 km/h.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":1, "icon":"nt_clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif", "title":"Monday Night", "fcttext":"Clear skies. Low 54F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.", "fcttext_metric":"Clear skies. Low 12C. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 km/h.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":2, "icon":"clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif", "title":"Tuesday", "fcttext":"Sunny skies. High 82F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.", "fcttext_metric":"Mainly sunny. High 28C. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 km/h.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":3, "icon":"nt_clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif", "title":"Tuesday Night", "fcttext":"Mostly clear. Low 58F. Winds light and variable.", "fcttext_metric":"A mostly clear sky. Low 14C. Winds light and variable.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":4, "icon":"clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif", "title":"Wednesday", "fcttext":"Mostly sunny skies. High 83F. Winds light and variable.", "fcttext_metric":"Mostly sunny skies. High 29C. Winds light and variable.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":5, "icon":"nt_clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif", "title":"Wednesday Night", "fcttext":"A mostly clear sky. Low near 60F. Winds light and variable.", "fcttext_metric":"A mostly clear sky. Low near 15C. Winds light and variable.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":6, "icon":"clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/clear.gif", "title":"Thursday", "fcttext":"Sunny. High 84F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.", "fcttext_metric":"Sunny. High 29C. Winds SW at 10 to 15 km/h.", "pop":"0" } , { "period":7, "icon":"nt_clear", "icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_clear.gif", "title":"Thursday Night", "fcttext":"A mostly clear sky. Low 61F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.", "fcttext_metric":"Clear skies. Low 16C. Winds SW at 10 to 15 km/h.", "pop":"0" } ] }, "simpleforecast": { "forecastday": [ {"date":{ "epoch":"1442271600", "pretty":"7:00 PM EDT on September 14, 2015", "day":14, "month":9, "year":2015, "yday":256, "hour":19, "min":"00", "sec":0, "isdst":"1", "monthname":"September", "monthname_short":"Sep", "weekday_short":"Mon", "weekday":"Monday", "ampm":"PM", "tz_short":"EDT", "tz_long":"America/New_York" }, |