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Python Script to Fetch Real Time Weather Data from OpenWeatherMap API For any City
Jun 1, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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build out a simple weather application
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using the open weather map API inside
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Python We will just make a simple API
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request to this famous weather API So
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the name of the API is open weather map
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API So it's a very famous API for
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getting the weather for any location So
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for that you just need to create a very
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uh simple account here You can create a
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free
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account After that you can get your own
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API key So I have already created one
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account here So you will need to go to
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the my API key section Just grab your
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own API key So just generate the API key
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Just give it a
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name So it will create a API key for you
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and
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then simply copy this and I just created
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this Python script here Uh I've given
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the script in the description of the
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video So basically we paste this API key
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and we are putting this location here
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which is a city name You can put any
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city in the world So I put Hakno here
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and if I run this script here you will
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see it will fail to retrieve data You
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need to invalid API key Let me just make
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sure that I paste the correct API
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key So I just need to
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paste So now you will see it will fetch
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the temperature of the location The
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weather clear sky humid humidity 20%
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wind speed 2.95
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millisecond So this is for luck now
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location Let me change the location and
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put here
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Auckland And once again run this It's
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you will see temperature is
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13.89 Celsius weather overcast humidity
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69% You can even cross check as well
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Just
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put so you can see it's round about
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correct
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So I have given this script in the
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description of the video Now let me show
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you step by step how to create this So
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it's a very simple application We simply
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make request to the open weather map API
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You for that we simply require the
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request module and here we specify your
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API key Then we specify the actual city
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and the URL to which we will make the
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request
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So here you'll simply make the request
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to
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https api open weather
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map.org/data/2.5/e o rg/
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data/2.5 /
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weather question
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mark and then Q is equal to and here you
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will embed your dynamic city name and
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then you also need to provide and and
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then you simply need to provide the app
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ID So here you will specify your API
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key and the
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units you will specify I want the
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weather data to be in metric So this is
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the overall structure of the API htt API
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open weather map og data /2.5
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weather and this is
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specify here you will change the city
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name and then you will also put your go
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to the
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So go to your API key section and simply
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grab the API
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key and paste it So after that you
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simply make the request to the API So
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for making the request we simply say
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request dot get we make the request and
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we get the data right here we convert
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that data into JSON After that we
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simply parse this data So we simply
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compare that if the
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status double equal to 200 then it's a
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successful request and then we simply
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grab the
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data So if you try to basically print
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this data here which is
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coming So we simply print out the data
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So this will be a simple JSON response
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which will be coming if I run this
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Python
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script So it is saying that uh on line
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number
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10 there is some kind of problem here
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this is status
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underscore
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status underscore
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code So we get this JSON data here It
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has all the properties longitude
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latitude of the country Then we have the
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weather all s So we just need to print
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the relevant properties here The
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properties that we want is the
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temperature weather humidity and wind
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speed So we will get all these four
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things just store it inside the
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respective variables and then we print
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out one by one
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So like
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this So printing out the temperature the
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actual weather humidity and wind speed
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So if you just refresh now you will see
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that you print out
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12.7 weather is light rain 88% wind
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speed So in this easy way you can
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actually query the open weather map API
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inside Python to get the weather of any
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city in the world and then print out the
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weather in the terminals So thank you
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very much for watching this video and
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