metoffice-weather-cli

metoffice-weather-cli

A CLI tool for fetching and printing weather data from the Met Office Weather DataHub API.

Installation

PyPI

Open the command line and type python3 -m pip install metoffice-weather-cli. You can then run the program anywhere by typing python3 -m metoffice_weather_cli <flags>.

Note: you may need to replace python3 with your OS's equivalent.

Usage

To use this program, you must have a Met Office Weather DataHub API key and a geocode.xyz Auth token (optional, used for geocoding only). These can be added by running the program with the -c flag or manually added in a .env file placed in the metoffice-weather-cli package directory as such:

DATAHUB_API_KEY=xxxxxxxx
DATAHUB_SECRET=xxxxxxxx
GEOCODE_AUTH=xxxxxxxx

Run python3 -m metoffice_weather_cli in the command line (optionally with the -h flag) to view the help page.

Todo

• Pick all 'useful' information out of the Met Office data - some is currently omitted
• Allow preferences to be set in a config file for the data printed out
• Switch from .env-based saving of API keys to another format (e.g. JSON) to avoid wiping files containing environment variables unrelated to the program