how to get current weather information to my program

[EngineerGirl]

Hi all! I am new to python so what I am asking might be ambitious, but I want to know if there is a way to take information from the national weather service an use it as ambient tempertures to calculate heat trabsfer problems? Any help is greatly apperciated!

[RachelCook]

There are lots of many websites now that providing a weather information. But one of the best source for that is http://weather.weatherbug.com/ you can visit that site to find what you need.

[bvdet]

The website source can be read with the urllib module and parsed with Beautifulsoup or other suitable HTML parser.

[bvdet]

Using the url suggested by RachelCook and a specific locale, the following will extract the high and low temperatures.

>>> from urllib import urlopen
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> url = "http://weather.weatherbug.com/MN/Wahkon-weather.html?zcode=z6286&zip=56386"
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(url).read())
>>> soup.find(name="span", id="divHi").get_text()
u'33\xb0F'
>>> soup.find(name="span", id="divLo").get_text()
u'28\xb0F'
>>>

[EngineerGirl]

Thank you! That worked perfectly!