Quick python weather script using Google's Weather API

weather.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from xml.dom import minidom
try:
	from urllib.request import urlopen
	from urllib.parse import urlencode
except ImportError:
	from urllib import urlopen, urlencode


API_URL = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?"

def main():
	arguments = ArgumentParser(prog="weather")
	arguments.add_argument("--unit", choices="CF", dest="unit", default="C", help="Which unit to display the temperatures in")
	arguments.add_argument("location", nargs="+")
	args = arguments.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])

	for location in args.location:
		url = API_URL + urlencode({"weather": location})
		xml = urlopen(url).read()
		doc = minidom.parseString(xml)

		forecast_information = doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("forecast_information")[0]
		city = forecast_information.getElementsByTagName("city")[0].getAttribute("data")

		current_conditions = doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("current_conditions")[0]
		temp = current_conditions.getElementsByTagName("temp_f" if args.unit == "F" else "temp_c")[0].getAttribute("data")
		condition = current_conditions.getElementsByTagName("condition")[0].getAttribute("data")
		wind_condition = current_conditions.getElementsByTagName("wind_condition")[0].getAttribute("data")
		humidity = current_conditions.getElementsByTagName("humidity")[0].getAttribute("data")

		indent = "  "
		print("Weather for {0}:".format(city))
		print(indent + "{0}°{1}".format(temp, args.unit))
		print(indent + condition)
		print(indent + wind_condition)
		print(indent + humidity)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()

"""
adys@azura ~/src/scripts % ./weather.py London Bucharest "New York"
Weather for London:
  14°C
  Partly Cloudy
  Wind: S at 12 mph
  Humidity: 55%
Weather for Bucharest, Bucuresti:
  14°C
  Partly Cloudy
  Wind: E at 16 mph
  Humidity: 59%
Weather for New York, NY:
  26°C
  Clear
  Wind: N at 6 mph
  Humidity: 32%
adys@azura ~/src/scripts % ./weather.py "Los Angeles" --unit=F     
Weather for Los Angeles, CA:
  64°F
  Haze
  Wind: N at 0 mph
  Humidity: 68%
"""

I am getting an error that:

weather:error:the following arguments are required:location

root@novvvela:/home/bot# python weather.py London --unit=C
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "weather.py", line 44, in
main()
File "weather.py", line 25, in main
doc = minidom.parseString(xml)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1928, in parseString
return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 940, in parseString
return builder.parseString(string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in parseString
parser.Parse(string, True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: syntax error: line 1, column 0

Hi @belindacosta and @BrainRTP:

Google's weather API shut down 4 years ago: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/28/did-google-just-quietly-kill-private-weather-api/#gref

Try this instead https://github.com/csparpa/pyowm

I am getting this error for both of the websites:weather: error: the following arguments are required: location

good morining .
can any help to me ,to find previous weather data by using python coding.

Google weather api dead for now, you can remove this code )