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Created February 23, 2014 06:07
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Pythonista script for generating and displaying the local weather.
#!/usr/bin/python
import json
import requests
import time
from datetime import datetime
import location
import webbrowser
import BaseHTTPServer
############################### Functions #################################
def wunder(lat, lon, wukey):
"Return a dictionary of weather data for the given location."
# URLs
baseURL = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/%s/' % wukey
conditionURL = baseURL + 'conditions/q/%f,%f.json' % (lat, lon)
astroURL = baseURL + 'astronomy/q/%f,%f.json' % (lat, lon)
radarURL = baseURL + 'radar/image.png' \
+ '?centerlat=%f&centerlon=%f' % (lat, lon - 1) \
+ '&radius=100&width=640&height=400&timelabel=1' \
+ '&timelabel.x=10&timelabel.y=390' \
+ '&newmaps=1&noclutter=1'
# Collect data.
c = requests.get(conditionURL)
current = c.json()['current_observation']
a = requests.get(astroURL)
astro = a.json()['moon_phase']
# Turn sun rise and set times into datetimes.
rise = '%s:%s' % (astro['sunrise']['hour'], astro['sunrise']['minute'])
set = '%s:%s' % (astro['sunset']['hour'], astro['sunset']['minute'])
sunrise = datetime.strptime(rise, '%H:%M')
sunset = datetime.strptime(set, '%H:%M')
# Mapping of pressure trend symbols to words.
pstr = {'+': 'rising', '-': 'falling', '0': 'steady'}
# Construct the dictionary and return it.
wudata = {'pressure': float(current['pressure_in']),
'ptrend': pstr[current['pressure_trend']],
'temp': current['temp_f'],
'desc': current['weather'],
'wind_dir': current['wind_dir'],
'wind': current['wind_mph'],
'feel': float(current['feelslike_f']),
'sunrise': sunrise,
'sunset': sunset,
'moon_pct': float(astro['percentIlluminated']),
'moon_age': int(astro['ageOfMoon']),
'radar': radarURL}
return wudata
def wuHTML(lat, lon, wukey):
"Return HTML with WU data for given location."
d = wunder(lat, lon, wukey)
# Get data ready for presentation
sunrise = d['sunrise'].strftime('%-I:%M %p').lower()
sunset = d['sunset'].strftime('%-I:%M %p').lower()
temp = '%.0f°' % d['temp']
pressure = 'Pressure: %.2f and %s' % (d['pressure'], d['ptrend'])
wind = 'Wind: %s at %.0f mph' % (d['wind_dir'], d['wind'])
feel = 'Feels like: %.0f°' % d['feel']
sun = 'Sunlight: %s to %s' % (sunrise, sunset)
moon = 'Moon: %s%% at %s days' % (d['moon_pct'], d['moon_age'])
# Assemble the HTML.
html = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content = "width = device-width" />
<title>Weather</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { font-family: Helvetica; }
h1 { font-size: 175%%;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 0; }
h2 { font-size: 125%%;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0; }
#now { margin-left: 0; }
#gust { padding-left: 2.75em; }
div p { margin-top: .25em;
margin-left: .25em; }
</style>
</head>
<body onload="setTimeout(function() { window.top.scrollTo(0, 1) }, 100);">
<h1>%s &bull; %s </h1>
<p><img width="100%%" src="%s" /></p>
<p id="now">%s<br />
%s<br />
%s<br />
%s<br />
%s<br /></p>
</body>
</html>''' % (temp, d['desc'], d['radar'], wind, feel, pressure, sun, moon)
return html
############################## Main program ###############################
# My Weather Underground key.
wukey = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
# Get the GPS info.
location.start_updates()
time.sleep(2)
loc = location.get_location()
# Generate the HTML.
html = wuHTML(loc['latitude'], loc['longitude'], wukey)
# Create the request handler.
class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(s):
"""Respond to a GET request."""
s.send_response(200)
s.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
s.end_headers()
s.wfile.write(html)
# Start the server and show the page.
server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 8888), MyHandler)
webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8888')
server.handle_request()
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