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canada-weather
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Retrieves data from the Government of Canada Open Data Weather API & writes JSON data to disk, allowing for file watchers to pick up the data.
This scraper will create warnings.json
& weather.json
in a target directory asynchronously.
Ottawa
)Name of a Canadian city.
./
)Directory to write data to.
UID to run process as.
$ canada-weather -d ~/Desktop -c toronto
$ node index.js -d ~/Desktop -c toronto
$ canada-weather -d ~/Desktop -c "ottawa (richmond"
Requires node.js with ES6 syntax support (^5.5.x).
FAQs
Canada Weather Scraper
The npm package canada-weather receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, canada-weather popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that canada-weather demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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