How do I parse simpleforecast period 1 conditions using python? | The WeatherAPI Community Customer Community

I am trying to use Python to get the conditions from the period 1 of the simpleforecast in the forecast feature. I apparently don't know the syntax for pointing to that specific data. What I am trying right now is:

import urllib2

import json

f = urllib2.urlopen('http://api.wunderground.com/api/my_key/forecast/q/TX/Waco.json')

json_string = f.read()

parsed_json = json.loads(json_string)

todayCondition = parsed_json['simpleforecast']['forecastday']['period'][1]['conditions']

print "Conditions for today are %s" % (todayCondition)

f.close()

I know the issue is with the way I am telling python to find the parsed data I want but I don't know how to get the specific conditions for "period": 1

Ryan Joyner

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Posted 2 years ago

2 years ago

Ryan Joyner

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Nevermind. Figured it out.
In case this helps any other newbies, here is my python code to print the current temp, today's conditions, and today's high temp (all the things I want to know when getting dressed in the morning, haha):

import urllib2

import json

f = urllib2.urlopen('http://api.wunderground.com/api/my_key/conditions/forecast/q/TX/Waco.json')

json_string = f.read()

parsed_json = json.loads(json_string)

currentTemp = parsed_json['current_observation']['temp_f']

todayCondition = parsed_json['forecast']['simpleforecast']['forecastday'][0]['conditions']

todayHigh = parsed_json['forecast']['simpleforecast']['forecastday'][0]['high']['fahrenheit']

print "Current temperature is %s. Conditions for today are %s and the high temp will be %s" % (currentTemp, todayCondition, todayHigh)

f.close()

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Ravi Yadav

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It's great that you figured it out and thanks for sharing the code with the community.

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Mark Caesar Casiano

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Can someone tell me why I'm getting KeyError: 'location'?

I'm using urllib3 to get the html.

def get_json_from_web(province, city):
wukey = 'some_key_here'
url = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/{}/geolookup/conditions/forecast/q/{}/{}.json'.format(wukey,province, city)
http = urllib3.PoolManager()

response = http.request('GET', url)
json_string = response.data.decode('utf8')
parsed_json = json.loads(json_string)
print(parsed_json)
location = parsed_json['location']['city']
temp_f = parsed_json['current_observation']['temp_f']
print("Current temperature in %s is: %s" % (location, temp_f))
response.close()

I app breaks at this code: location = parsed_json['location']['city']

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2 years ago