Get Weather using JSON web service and Python

by kostasApril 28, 2014

Get the current weather for Copenhagen:

import urllib2
import json
 
# hent vejret for Koebenhavn
url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Copenhagen,dk'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
 
# parse JSON resultatet
data = json.load(response)
print 'Weather in Copenhagen:', data['weather'][0]['description']