Get Live Weather Desktop Notifications Using Python

We know weather updates are how much important in our day-to-day life. So, We are introducing the logic and script with some easiest way to understand for everyone. Let’s see a simple Python script to show the live update for Weather information. 

Modules Needed

In this script, we are using some libraries

• bs4: Beautiful Soup(bs4) is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. To install this module type the below command in the terminal.

pip install bs4

• win10toast: This library helps in creating desktop notifications. To install this module type the below command in the terminal.

pip install win10toast

• requests: This library allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. To install this module type the below command in the terminal.

pip install requests

Approach :

1. Extract data form given URL.
2. Scrape the data with the help of requests and Beautiful Soup.
3. Convert that data into html code.
4. Find the required details and filter them.
5. Save the result in the String.
6. Pass the result in Notification object.

Let’s execute the script step-by-step :

Step 1: Import all dependence

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import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from win10toast import ToastNotifier

Step 2: Create an object of ToastNotifier class.

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n = ToastNotifier()

Step 3: Define a function for getting data from the given url.

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def getdata(url):

    r = requests.get(url)

    return r.text

Step 4: Now pass the URL into the getdata function and Convert that data into HTML code.

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htmldata = getdata("https://weather.com/en-IN/weather/today/l/25.59,85.14?par=google&temp=c/")

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldata, 'html.parser')

print(soup.prettify())

After executing this script you will get raw data like these:

Raw HTML information 

Step 5: Find the required details and filter them 

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current_temp = soup.find_all("span",
                             class_=" _-_-components-src-organism-CurrentConditions-CurrentConditions--tempValue--MHmYY")
chances_rain = soup.find_all("div",
                             class_= "_-_-components-src-organism-CurrentConditions-CurrentConditions--precipValue--2aJSf")

temp = (str(current_temp))
temp_rain = str(chances_rain)

result = "current_temp " + temp[128:-9] + "  in patna bihar" + "\n" +temp_rain[131:-14]

Step 6: Now pass the result into notifications object.

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n.show_toast("Weather update", result, duration = 10)

Output :

notification 

Complete Code:

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# import required libraries
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from win10toast import ToastNotifier

# create an object to ToastNotifier class
n = ToastNotifier()

# define a function
def getdata(url):
    r = requests.get(url)
    return r.text

htmldata = getdata("https://weather.com/en-IN/weather/today/l/25.59,85.14?par=google&temp=c/")

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldata, 'html.parser')

current_temp = soup.find_all("span", class_= "_-_-components-src-organism-CurrentConditions-CurrentConditions--tempValue--MHmYY")

chances_rain = soup.find_all("div", class_= "_-_-components-src-organism-CurrentConditions-CurrentConditions--precipValue--2aJSf")

temp = (str(current_temp))

temp_rain = str(chances_rain)

result = "current_temp " + temp[128:-9] + "  in patna bihar" + "\n" + temp_rain[131:-14]
n.show_toast("live Weather update",
             result, duration = 10)

Output:

Live Notification