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Explore the OpenWeatherMap APIs in Python to get weather data, air pollution data, use the Geocoding API, and integrate these features into a Django web application.

openweathermap-django.tar.gz

Django

This course is a practical guide on how to use the OpenWeatherMap APIs to retrieve current and forecast weather data for a specific location. You will learn how to get weather forecasts for 5 days, with data after every 3-hour interval.

Moreover, you will learn how to get the current, forecast, and historical air pollution data for a specific location. This course also introduces the Geocoding API, which is a simple tool to get geographical coordinates by using the name of the location, and vice versa. You’ll wrap up by integrating the OpenWeatherMap APIs into a functional web application using the Django framework.

Lastly, this course also provides some recommendations and resources to further explore the OpenWeatherMap APIs.

Integrating the OpenWeatherMap APIs in Python

This API allows us to retrieve the weather forecast for 5 days for any specific location. This forecast provides weather data collected after every 3-hour interval. We can retrieve the forecast data in the JSON and XML formats.

## 5-day/3-hour forecast

We'll make a `GET` request to the following URI to get the 5-day/3-hour forecast data for a location of our choice:

Learn to retrieve weather forecasts for 5 days for a specific location with data collected every 3 hours.

Introduction

Current & Forecast Weather Data Collection

Other Weather API's Collection

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Five Day Weather Forecast