owapi

owapi is a package to help you acquire weather data from the OpenWeather API. It employs the One Call API and can return, for any location:

• Current weather observations
• Weather forecast
  • Hourly (next 48 hours)
  • Daily (next 7 days)
• Historical observations for the previous five days.

All data is returned as Pandas DataFrames.

The API is limited to 1000 calls a day in the free tier. You can pay for more requests if required.

Getting Started

Register for an API Key

You will need to get an API key by signing up to OpenWeather.

Set API Key for owapi

owapi.set_api_key("my-api-key")

Get Current Observations

current = owapi.get_current_obs(53.381495, -1.471421)

Get Hourly forecast

hourly = owapi.get_hourly_forecast(53.381495, -1.471421)

Get Daily forecast

daily = owapi.get_daily_forecast(53.381495, -1.471421)

Get All Available Historic Observations

historic = owapi.get_all_obs(60.33, -1.33)