Build Weather Checker CLI App - Python programming + OpenWeatherMap API

Hey guys.
In this programming tutorial video, I'm going to demonstrate how to build a command-line interface (CLI) application to check the weather for a certain country/city using Python and the OpenWeatherMap API.
The video starts with importing necessary libraries such as requests, argparse, chalk, and pyfiglet.
I'll then walk you through the code step-by-step, showing how to parse command-line arguments and construct the API URL with query parameters. The API request is made using the requests library and the response status code is checked to ensure successful retrieval of weather information. The JSON response from the API is parsed and relevant weather information, such as temperature, feels like temperature, description, icon, city, and country, are extracted.
Finally, the output is constructed with a weather icon and printed using the chalk library. By the end of the video, viewers will have learned how to create a functional CLI weather checker using Python and the OpenWeatherMap API.
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[@shivangsaxena8958]

I really like your coding style its really amazing

[@BekBrace]

Thank you so much :)

[@cahwardev9804]

very nice video, really! I like that you share good content with us :D

[@BekBrace]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@mrboxxxx]

COOL - Thank You everyone!

[@andgat3512]

Wonderful tutorial! Unfortunately, I didn't understand how to add a dictionary with icons in code. Can you be so kind to explain? Thanks a lot.

[@BekBrace]

Thank you :) It's so simple, all the codes and icons are from the openweathermap API :)

[@TherealkevinAR]

Same here, I checked the websites. I get how the url is built. But even on source code on GitHub, I don't understand how you add directly into your code the weather icons. Do you use an additional package? Or you just copy paste as a string the url given on openapiweather?

[@BekBrace]

Hey guys ! Yes, the weather condition codes like "01d", "02d", "01n", "02n", etc., do exist in the OpenWeatherMap API. These codes are part of the response returned by the API to represent different weather conditions. Here's what these codes typically represent: - **"01d", "02d", "03d", etc.**: These codes with a "d" suffix represent daytime weather conditions. For example, "01d" represents clear sky during the day, "02d" represents few clouds during the day, and so on. - **"01n", "02n", "03n", etc.**: These codes with an "n" suffix represent nighttime weather conditions. For example, "01n" represents clear sky during the night, "02n" represents few clouds during the night, and so on. These codes allow the API to provide specific information about the weather conditions for both daytime and nighttime, allowing applications like the one in the script to display appropriate weather icons based on the time of day. I apologize for not explicitly explaining this in the video, I thought it is self explanatory, my bad 😊

[@NoorSiddique-b9x]

is that sign up and getting api key free of cost? on open weather map api . or will we have to pay after using key

[@BekBrace]

Don't worry brother, no payment is necessary

[@MPAXEL]

soon starting ?

[@BekBrace]

Finished already

[@vanishreer1492]

can you please explain how you switched to terminal?

[@BekBrace]

CTRL ~

[@vanishreer1492]

@@BekBrace Thank you so much. I have one more doubt, the output is chalk.red but I'm unable to print output to chalk.green. Can I get your help, please?

[@BekBrace]

​@@vanishreer1492 Really? Ok, copy in your reply your code that is not working, I'll take a look

[@MihyaAwujaha]

This is brew,pypi or npm?

[@BekBrace]

certainly not brew, this is Microsoft Windows, pypi is not a package manager, and npm is used for node. Python uses PIP, but as i'm using a virtual environment here I used PIPENV.

[@inteliconn995]

Thanks!

[@BekBrace]

You're welcome

[@NoorSiddique-b9x]

im making this for my college project so im signing up for api key kindly tell me will i have to pay or how long will this work

[@BekBrace]

No payment is required / just you have a limited amount of API calls, that's all

[@NoorSiddique-b9x]

@@BekBrace how many amount of api calls? because i have to present this project on Thursday will it work till then?

[@BekBrace]

Check out their website

[@BekBrace]

It will work, don't worry ☺️

[@NoorSiddique-b9x]

@@BekBrace thankyou so much 🙂🤍

[@lng1801]

Can you please explain why we are using api 2.5 instead of 3.0 ? What are the differences?

[@BekBrace]

You can use API 3, it's probably my mistake that I've been using 2.5 for some of my projects, but 3 should be fine too 😊

[@ahmedssss5]

I put Like on Bek videos then i watch 😂

[@BekBrace]

Appreciate it 🙂👍

[@abhishekck6871]

What to do if i have to auto-refresh after a specific time ?

[@BekBrace]

I don't know tbh

[@rishimondal3010]

Can make CLI app with can return a query from neo4j database

[@BekBrace]

Of course

[@rishimondal3010]

​@@BekBraceclick is better than agrpase ?

[@hassn_2024]

give me the dic code plz

[@BekBrace]

The code is in the description

[@herryisnotcommie]

plz code in Rust Version you must going crazy😊

[@BekBrace]

Okay 👍🙂 i will do that for you