Merge pull request #80 from brentru/api-darkskies-example

add example of accessing darksky forecast using the IO API

Author: brentru

examples/api/weather.py

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+"""
+'weather.py'
+================================================
+Dark Sky Hyperlocal for IO Plus
+with Adafruit IO API
+
+Author(s): Brent Rubell for Adafruit Industries
+"""
+# Import JSON for forecast parsing
+import json
+# Import Adafruit IO REST client.
+from Adafruit_IO import Client, Feed, RequestError
+
+# Set to your Adafruit IO key.
+ADAFRUIT_IO_USERNAME = 'YOUR_IO_USERNAME'
+ADAFRUIT_IO_KEY = 'YOUR_IO_PASSWORD'
+
+# Create an instance of the REST client.
+aio = Client(ADAFRUIT_IO_USERNAME, ADAFRUIT_IO_KEY)
+
+# Grab the weather JSON
+weather = aio.receive_weather(1234)
+weather = json.dumps(weather)
+forecast = json.loads(weather)
+
+# Parse the current forecast
+current = forecast['current']
+print('Current Forecast')
+print('It is {0} and {1}.'.format(current['summary'], current['temperature']))
+
+# Parse the two day forecast
+forecast_days_2 = forecast['forecast_days_2']
+print('\nWeather in Two Days')
+print('It will be {0} with a high of {1}F and a low of {2}F.'.format(
+            forecast_days_2['summary'], forecast_days_2['temperatureLow'], forecast_days_2['temperatureHigh']))
+
+# Parse the five day forecast
+forecast_days_5 = forecast['forecast_days_5']
+print('\nWeather in Five Days')
+print('It will be {0} with a high of {1}F and a low of {2}F.'.format(
+            forecast_days_5['summary'], forecast_days_5['temperatureLow'], forecast_days_5['temperatureHigh']))