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OpenWeather API - Pulling JSON data out

I'm writing a little JavaScript to pull information from JSON that contains name, longitude, latitude and openweather API call. What I need is to get the API information out of the API call into the HTML page so you can get the weather forecast for each information. I have the two elements working separately but can't work out how to get them working together.

Help please? :-)

Sample API Weather from d.weather

 api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecase?lat=50.8609&lon=-0.08014&&units=metric

HTML page for pulling the openweather JSON data

<html>
<head>
<title>Weather</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js" ></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.7.0/jquery-ui.js" ></script>

<script>
function getWeather(callback) {
    var weather = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=51.5072&lon=0.1275&units=metric';
    $.ajax({
      dataType: "jsonp",
      url: weather,
      success: callback
    });
}

// get data:
getWeather(function (data) {
    console.log('weather data received');
    console.log(data.list[0].weather[0].description); 
    console.log(data.list[0].weather[0].main);  
});

getWeather(function (data) {
    document.write('weather data received');
    document.write('<br>');
    document.write(data.list[0].weather[0].description);
    document.write('<br>');
    document.write(data.list[0].weather[0].main);
    document.write('<br>');
    document.write(data.list[0].main.temp);
    document.write('<br>');
    document.write(data.list[0].main[0].dt_txt);
    document.write('<br>');
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Html page for pulling the JSON data

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.0.min.js"></script> 
<!-- Javascript -->

<script type="text/javascript">
function loadUrl(newLocation){
    window.location = newLocation;
    return false;
}
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function (){
    $("#btn382").click(function(){       
        /* set no cache */
        $.ajaxSetup({ cache: false });

        $.getJSON("weather.json", function(data){
            var html = [];

            /* loop through array */
            $.each(data, function(index, d){           
                html.push("Team : ", d.Teams, ", ",
                          "Long : ", d.Long, ", ",
                          "Lat : ", d.Lat, ", ",
              "Weather : ", d.Weather, "<br>");        
            });


            $("#div381").html(html.join('')).css("background-color", "orange");
        }).error(function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){ /* assign handler */
            /* alert(jqXHR.responseText) */
            alert("error occurred!");
        });
    });
});
</script>

<!-- HTML -->
<a name="#ajax-getjson-example"></a>
<div id="example-section38">   
    <div>Football weather</div>
    <div id="div381"></div>
    <button id="btn382" type="button">Team location</button>
</div>

weather.json

{
    "Teams":"Wycombe Wanderers",
    "Long":-0.800299,
    "Lat":51.6306,
    "Weather":"  api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=51.6306&lon=-0.800299&mode=html"
  },
  {
    "Teams":"Livingston",
    "Long":-3.52207,
    "Lat":55.8864,
    "Weather":"  api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=55.8864&lon=-3.52207&mode=html"
  },
  {
    "Teams":"Brighton and Hove Albion",
    "Long":-0.08014,
    "Lat":50.8609,
    "Weather":"  api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=50.8609&lon=-0.08014&mode=html"
  },
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Grimlockz Avatar asked Sep 20 '13 13:09

Grimlockz


1 Answers

I have the basics that should help you on your way. It's a mashup of your two pages.

First I amended your getWeather function to call for the weather rather than the forecast. It accepts a city parameter and appends that parameter to the data before the callback is called.

function getWeather(city, callback) {
  var url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather';
  $.ajax({
    dataType: "jsonp",
    url: url,
    jsonCallback: 'jsonp',
    data: { q: city },
    cache: false,
    success: function (data) {
        data.city = city;
        callback(data);
    }
  });
}

Here, in lieu of your teams JSON I made one up in the form of a JS object, with Arsenal and Liverpool and their corresponding cities as the data. The function loops over the object, extracts the city name and passes it to getWeather. The data is returned and appended to the div.

$(document).ready(function () {

  $("#btn382").click(function () {

    var teams = {
      arsenal: { city: 'london' },
      liverpool: { city: 'liverpool' }
    };

    for (var team in teams) {
      var city = teams[team].city;
      getWeather(city, function(data) {
        var html = [];
        html.push('<div>')
        html.push('City: ', data.city, ', ');
        html.push('Lat: ', data.coord.lat, ', ');
        html.push('Lon: ', data.coord.lon, ', ');
        html.push('Weather: ', data.weather[0].description);
        html.push('</div>')
        $("#div381").append(html.join('')).css("background-color", "orange");
      });
    }

  });
});

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas about how to tackle this project.

See it working here.

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Andy Avatar answered Nov 01 '22 01:11

Andy