Ah I should have clarified, I'm a paid subscriber, I paid the $3/year to
get rid of the ad's in the android app and so far so good on using this
query every 15 minutes.
On Monday, 30 January 2017 19:55:33 UTC-5, Dan'l B wrote:
>
> 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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