Fetch WeatherBug weather stations for Chicago from web.

get_weatherbug_stations.py

#!/bin/env python

import csv
import re
from urllib2 import urlopen

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup

WEATHERBUG_API_KEY = 'A6464697672'
WEATHERBUG_SEARCH_URL = 'http://api.wxbug.net/getStationsXML.aspx?ACode=' + WEATHERBUG_API_KEY + '&zipCode=60601&unittype=0'

list_xml = urlopen(WEATHERBUG_SEARCH_URL)
list_soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(list_xml.read())

station_tags = list_soup.findAll('aws:station')

station_data = []

for tag in station_tags:
    station_id = tag['id']
    name = tag['name']
    latitude = tag['latitude']
    longitude = tag['longitude']
	
    station_data.append((station_id, name, '%s %s' % (latitude, longitude), 'WeatherBug'))
    
    print 'Got ', station_id
	
output = csv.writer(open("weatherbug_station_data.csv", "wb"))
output.writerows([('station_id', 'name', 'location', 'source')])
output.writerows(station_data)