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I am trying to use a script from within google spreadsheet to populate weather data that I an use in other apps and my webpage with highcharts. My coding skills are weak and I in the process of educating myself. I wrote this code based on an example I found but it doesn't run. I get the following TypeError: Cannot read property "simpleforecast" from undefined. (line 21, file "Code")
My main goal is to log temp,humid,windspeed,direction.




/**


 * Retrieves all the rows in the active spreadsheet that contain data and logs the


 * values for each row.


 * For more information on using the Spreadsheet API, see


 * <a href="https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_spreadsheet" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/apps-sc...</a>


 */


var cDays = 0, cHigh = 1, cLow = 2, cConditions = 3, cSparkline = 4;


var nClols = 5;



function getTemp() {


  var url = '<a href="http://api.wunderground.com/api/************/forecast/q/ON/Belleville.json" rel="nofollow">http://api.wunderground.com/api/*****...</a>&#x27;;


  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();


  var rows = sheet.getDataRange();


  var numRows = rows.getNumRows();


  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);



  var contentText = response.getContentText();


  var forecast = Utilities.jsonParse(contentText);


  var todaysForecast = forecast.forecast.simpleforecast.forecastday[0];



  var high = todaysForecast.high.fahrenheit;


  var low = todaysForecast.low.fahrenheit;


  var conditions = todaysForecast.conditions;


  sheet.insertRowAfter(1);



  var range = sheet.getRange(2,1,1, nCols);


  var row = range.getValues()[0];


  row[cDay] = new Date ();


  row[cHigh] = high; row[cLow] = low;


  row[cConditions] = conditions;


  var nRows= numRows >= 10 ? 10 :numRows;


  row[cSparkline] = "=SPARKLINE(R[0]C[-3]:R[" + (nRows-1) + "]C[-3])";


  range.setValues([row]);



}


<code> 


I figured if I could get this to work I could modify to get exactly what I want. 


any advice,example or direction is greatly appreciated! 


Thanks


Jeff in Ontario

cormad

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Posted 5 years ago

5 years ago

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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Hi Jeff,

You'll probably find more help in a forum related to the google spreadsheet API or SDK since it seems like the issue is with the
UrlFetchApp class.

you can find info on that here
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetch/url-fetch-app

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5 years ago

cormad

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Thanks Tim,
I apologize for such bad code. It had a ton of typo's and other mistakes. I was actually able to get it working and thought it would be simple to switch to conditions rather than forecast. Now I get TypeError: Cannot read property "temp_f" from undefined. (line 24, file "Code")

<Code>
var cDay = 0, cTemp = 1, cRH = 2, cWinddir = 3, cWinddegree = 4;var cWindspeed = 5, cWindgust = 6;
var nCols = 6;

function getTemp() {
var url = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/**************/conditions/q/44.1,-77.3.json';
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);

var contentText = response.getContentText();
var conditions = JSON.parse(contentText);
var todaysConditions = conditions.conditions;

var temp = todaysConditions.temp_f;
var rh = todaysConditions.relative_humidity;
var winddir = todaysConditions.wind_dir;
var winddegree = todaysConditions.wind_degrees;
var windspeed = todaysConditions.wind_mph;
var windgust = todaysConditions.wind_gust.mph;
sheet.insertRowAfter(1);

var range = sheet.getRange(2,1,1, nCols);
var row = range.getValues()[0];
row[cDay] = new Date ();
row[cTemp] = temp;
row[cRH] = rh;
row[cWinddir] = winddir;
row[cWinddegree] = winddegree;
row[cWindspeed] = windspeed;
row[cWindgust] = windgust;

range.setValues([row]);

}
<Code>
I underlined line 24, I will search your link also. I am so close :).

Jeff

(Edited)

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5 years ago

Tim Roche, Official Rep

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this line
var todaysConditions = conditions.conditions;
should probably read

var todaysConditions = conditions.current_observation

there is no conditions object in that API call

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5 years ago

cormad

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Thanks Time I got it working. :)
Is there a way to call a single data point from one line of code?
example
<div> get*********************************************************temp_f</div>
Excuse my lack of knowledge, I learn as I go

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