Weather.py

Inspiration

From the weather challenge on day 1

What it does

Gets the current weather for a city that the user specifies

How we built it

Using python, importing the requests and BeautifulSoup4 packages

Challenges we ran into

Lack of good websites to scrape from, web data requires javascript to run before displaying the html

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Found another way to write a function that checks the weather. Previously, I made a command to do the same but with the use of API's.

What we learned

That web scraping using bs4 directly is not very efficient to check for weather. Many sites will not display the code that displays the weather data immediately, as javascript needs to be run first. This can be fixed using selenium webdriver, which may be a solution to implement later on.

What's next for Weather.py

I will utilize different ways to check the weather rather than web scraping, namely using API's instead of scraping. This will allow me to gather more data, such as the weather for the next day.

Built With

• python