What do I look for when wanting to scrape a certain thing?

InAPickle

import bs4, requests

def get_beautiful_soup(url):
    return bs4.BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text)

soup = get_beautiful_soup('http://www.weatherbug.com')

print(soup.get_text())

Ok so as of now, in the script above I have made you use weather bug to find the weather in your local area, and your area and weather should appear at the top. After looking into the buetiful soup 4 documentation, I see that you are able to extract certain information. The way it is explained on the Documentation is that you can use "for link in soup.find_all('a'):" to find all of the "<a>" 's in the website. My problem is that every location has a different name, so I can't just tell it to look for one because that won't find your location. If you know what to do please help, I will continue to do research on this.

Webmaster4o

This is not really a pythonista-specific question, you might have more luck in stackoverflow. It's a far larger community, you'll likely get an answer within an hour.

InAPickle

Well there has to be someone in this community who knows how.

Webmaster4o

Weatherbug is not a simple site, it has lots of fancy CSS and JavaScript. For someone with your apparent skill level, don't try it. Use a pre-built Python library for weather forecasts, like this one which I found with a quick Google search. The location module can give you the device's latitude / longitude.

Webmaster4o

If you download the previously linked library to site_packages, this code will get you the current weather at a location, as an example

import location, forecastio

api_key = 'bb17c2f14b8e3e00d543485185af019c'

location_data = location.get_location()
lat = location_data['latitude']
lon = location_data['longitude']

forecast = forecastio.load_forecast(api_key, lat, lon)
weather = forecast.currently()

print weather.summary

Please get your own API key instead of continuing to use mine once you verify that it works. Read the documentation for forecastio for more complex uses.

InAPickle

Ok, thanks a lot

ccc

https://github.com/coomlata1/pythonista-scripts And https://github.com/cclauss/weather_where_you_are Might help.