In this article, we will see how to extract weather data from google. Google does not have its own weather API, it fetches data from weather.com and shows it when you search on Google. So, we will scrape the data from Google, and also we will see another method to fetch a schematic depiction of a location’s weather data for the next two days in Python without utilizing an API.
Method 1:
Module needed:
Requests: Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. This module also does not come built-in with Python. To install this type the below command in the terminal.
pip install requests
bs4: Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. Whether it be an HTML or XML page, that can later be used for iterating, searching, and modifying the data within it.
Approach:
- Import the module
- Enter the city name with the URL
"https://www.google.com/search?q="+"weather"+{cityname}
- Make requests instance and pass the URL
- Get the raw data.
- Extract the required data from the soup.
- Finally, print the required data.
Step-wise implementation of code:
Step 1: Import the requests and bs4 library
Python3
# importing the libraryimport requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup |
Step 2: Create a URL with the entered city name in it and pass it to the get function.
Python3
# enter city namecity = "lucknow"# create url# requests instancehtml = requests.get(url).content# getting raw datasoup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser') |
Step 3: Soup will return a heap of data with HTML tags. So, a chunk of data has been shown below from which we will get all the necessary data with the help of the find function and passing the tag name and class name.
<div class=”kvKEAb”><div><div><div class=”BNeawe iBp4i AP7Wnd”><div><div class=”BNeawe
iBp4i AP7Wnd”>13°C</div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class=”BNeawe tAd8D AP7Wnd”>
<div><div class=”BNeawe tAd8D AP7Wnd”>Saturday 11:10 am
Python3
# get the temperaturetemp = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe iBp4i AP7Wnd'}).text# this contains time and sky descriptionstr = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe tAd8D AP7Wnd'}).text# format the datadata = str.split('\n')time = data[0]sky = data[1] |
Step 4: Here list1 contains all the div tags with a particular class name and index 5 of this list has all other required data.
Python3
# list having all div tags having particular class namelistdiv = soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe s3v9rd AP7Wnd'})# particular list with required datastrd = listdiv[5].text# formatting the stringpos = strd.find('Wind')other_data = strd[pos:] |
Step 5: Printing all the data
Python3
# printing all the dataprint("Temperature is", temp)print("Time: ", time)print("Sky Description: ", sky)print(other_data) |
Output:
Below is the full implementation:
Python3
# importing libraryimport requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup# enter city namecity = "lucknow"# creating url and requests instancehtml = requests.get(url).content# getting raw datasoup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')temp = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe iBp4i AP7Wnd'}).textstr = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe tAd8D AP7Wnd'}).text# formatting datadata = str.split('\n')time = data[0]sky = data[1]# getting all div taglistdiv = soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'BNeawe s3v9rd AP7Wnd'})strd = listdiv[5].text# getting other required datapos = strd.find('Wind')other_data = strd[pos:]# printing all dataprint("Temperature is", temp)print("Time: ", time)print("Sky Description: ", sky)print(other_data) |
Output:
Method 2:
Module needed:
Requests: Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. The HTTP request returns a response object with all of the required response data. This module also does not come built-in with Python. To install this type the below command in the terminal.
pip install requests
Approach:
- Import the requests module
- Sending request to get the IP Location Information
- Extracting the location in JSON format
- Printing the location extracted
- Passing the city name and retrieving the weather data of the city
- Printing the output
Below is the implementation:
Python3
# Python code to display schematic weather detailsimport requests#Sending requests to get the IP Location Information# Receiving the response in JSON formatdata = res.json()# Extracting the Location of the City from the responsecitydata = data['city']# Prints the Current Locationprint(citydata)# Passing the City name to the url# Getting the Weather Data of the Cityres = requests.get(url)# Printing the results!print(res.text)# This code is contributed by PL VISHNUPPRIYAN |
Output:
Displays the weather of the current location
