rivasd / simpleweather

A simple module to fetch weather data from weather canada servers

Montreal Weather Fetcher

Have you ever wished you could get Environment Canada's hourly forecasts for Montreal in a nice, simple csv file? Well, wish no more!

Installation

1. Find a way to install Python 3.whatever
2. Make sure you add this installation's directory to your PATH, or better yet use virtual environments
3. Clone or dowload this repo and navigate to it on command line
4. Install the dependencies with pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Profit !

Usage

Make sure you can call your python installation from the command line by adding its installation directory to your PATH variable. You can now use python on the command line !

to run this awesome tool, just navigate to where you downloaded or clone this repo and do

$ python fetchweather.py

By default the output will be saved to your current directory. Pass the -o flag to specify another location

$ python fetchweather.py -o "C:\Users\myname\Documents\forecasts\"

Have fun!