Beautiful Day - Learning webscraping with BeautfifulSoup

The focus of this project is to learn about webscraping with the Requests and BeautifulSoup Python libraries.

The project source code is available on Github. Contributions are welcomed.

I use jupyter notebooks to work out the beautifulsoup returns. The notebooks are draft quality, meaning I just use them to hack around. They may be of interest to see how I search out elements and return strings from them.

Timmins Weather Notebook

Install

    sudo pip3 install beautifulday

Usage

The code is in the url of your weather report.

Help Menu

beautifulday -h

usage: beautifulday [-h] -c CODE [-e]

Use argparsing to allow more control over output

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-c CODE, --code CODE  Enter the city code from weather.gc.ca
-e, --extended        Add the extended forecast

Example 1 - Sudbury ON, simple forecast

beautifulday -c on-40

Greater Sudbury, ON - 7:00 AM EDT Monday 22 April 2019
No Alerts in effect
Temperature: 4°C
Conditions: Cloudy
Humidity: 75%
Wind: ENE 16 km/h
Normals: High: 11°C  Low: 0°C
Sunrise: 6:25 EDT  Sunset:20:20 EDT

Example 2 - Timmins ON, simple forecast (includes weather alerts)

beautifulday -c on-127

Timmins, ON - 7:00 AM EDT Monday 22 April 2019
FREEZING RAIN WARNING 
RAINFALL WARNING 
Temperature: -2°C
Conditions: Light Freezing Rain
Humidity: 88%
Wind: E 13 km/h
Normals: High: 11°C  Low: -2°C
Sunrise: 6:23 EDT  Sunset:20:25 EDT

Example 3 Halifax NS, extended forecast

beautifulday -c ns-19 -e

Halifax, NS - 8:38 AM ADT Monday 22 April 2019
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 
Temperature: 11°C
Conditions: Light Rain
Humidity: 100%
Wind: S 9 km/h
Normals: High: 10°C  Low: 2°C
Sunrise: 6:19 ADT  Sunset:20:07 ADT
---Extended Forecast---
Today - Periods of rain. Fog patches. Amount 10 to 20 mm. High 12. UV index 2 or low.
Tonight - Periods of rain. Fog patches. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Low plus 5.
Tue, 23 Apr - Rain. Fog patches. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Wind east 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 8. UV index 1 or low.
Night - Showers. Low plus 5.
Wed, 24 Apr - A mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of showers. High 10.
Night - Showers. Low plus 2.
Thu, 25 Apr - Cloudy. High 8.
Night - Cloudy periods. Low zero.
Fri, 26 Apr - A mix of sun and cloud. High 8.
Night - Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low plus 2.
Sat, 27 Apr - Rain. High 7.
Night - Cloudy periods with 60 percent chance of showers. Low plus 1.