Python Yahoo Weather

Fetches weather reports from Yahoo! Weather.

Written by Thomas Upton with contributions from Chris Lasher.

This code is licensed under a BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license.

See the blog post for more information.

Usage: weather.py [options] location_code

$ weather.py --help

for options and their descriptions.

Weather data can be printed to an output file with the --output option.

$ weather.py 24060 --output='weather.txt'

If a weather report cannot be generated, the specified output file is not altered. This is useful when attempting to cache weather output while, for instance, on a flaky network connection. To attempt to update the weather file and output its contents, one could use the following command. If the weather could not be loaded, the previous contents of the file are shown.

$ weather.py 24060 --output='weather.txt' && cat weather.txt

Example Usage

Default output

$ weather.py 24060
25F and Partly Cloudy

Metric units

$ weather.py -m 24060
-4C and Partly Cloudy

Different delimiter

$ weather.py -d " / " 24060
50F / Mostly Cloudy

With two days' forecast

$ weather.py -lf2 24060
Blacksburg VA

25F and Partly Cloudy

  17 Jan 2009
    High: 30F
    Low: 22F
    Condition: Partly Cloudy
  18 Jan 2009
    High: 39F
    Low: 25F
    Condition: PM Snow Showers

With headers

$ weather.py -lvf2 24060
Location:
Blacksburg VA

Current conditions:
25F and Partly Cloudy

Forecast:
  17 Jan 2009
    High: 30F
    Low: 22F
    Condition: Partly Cloudy
  18 Jan 2009
    High: 39F
    Low: 25F
    Condition: PM Snow Showers