On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 3:42:49 PM UTC-5, Robert Mantel wrote:
>
> Got it figured out. All I do is run my script every 15 minutes as Weather
> Underground updates their forecast that often. Then all i did was comment
> out the zambretti stuff in gauge-data.txt.tmpl and substituted one line
> with reads the text file generated by the script:
>
> #set $fc = file('/var/tmp/fctdata').read()
>
> That was easier than I made it out to be I guess. Just posting this in
> here if anyone is interested in doing the same thing.
>
> On Thursday, 26 January 2017 16:31:43 UTC-5, Robert Mantel wrote:
>>
>> I'm starting to hone my python skills and have a snippet of code that
>> will get the text forecast from weather underground and concatenate it into
>> a single variable which I believe is what I will need to hijack the $fc
>> variable in the gauges-data.txt.tmpl. I haven't tried putting my code into
>> the template yet, but was looking for validation as to whether this will
>> work or not and what I might need to change to make it cheetah friendly??
>> Here it is:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> import json,requests,codecs
>> url = "http://api.wunderground.com/api/<api code>/forecast/q/yqt.json
>> <http://api.wunderground.com/api/3eaba4f5fa8ab805/forecast/q/yqt.json>"
>> response = requests.get(url)
>> json_data = json.loads(response.text)
>> forecast_data = json_data['forecast']['txt_forecast']['forecastday']
>> fcast = ""
>> for item in forecast_data:
>> forecastday = item.get('title')
>> fcttext_metric = item.get('fcttext_metric')
>> fcast += '{} {}'.format(forecastday, fcttext_metric,)
>> print fcast
>>
>> obviously the print statement is just for troubleshooting so wouldn't be
>> necessary once introduced into the template. But I have no idea how
>> cheetah will deal with it.
>>
>
Robert,
Does your WU API key allow that many accesses w/o paying extra for it?
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