Here’s a simple Python code snippet for finding the weather condition of any given city using Google’s Weather API. It’s also published on GitHub if you want to clone it.
import urllib2 def getWeather(city): #create google weather api url url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=" + urllib2.quote(city) try: # open google weather api url f = urllib2.urlopen(url) except: # if there was an error opening the url, return return "Error opening url" # read contents to a string s = f.read() # extract weather condition data from xml string weather = s.split("<current_conditions><condition data=\"")[-1].split("\"")[0] # if there was an error getting the condition, the city is invalid if weather == "<?xml version=": return "Invalid city" #return the weather condition return weather def main(): while True: city = raw_input("Give me a city: ") weather = getWeather(city) print(weather) if __name__ == "__main__": main()
Update: GitHub is awesome because it allows very easy forking. Beau Martínez has made a fork of my script that includes Python 3 support, XML parsing instead of RegEx searching, and temperature reporting.