Google Weather Forecast Scraper

A simple BeautifulSoup scraper for Google/(weather.com) weather forecast data.

Features

• Automatic units detection and conversion.
• Extracts current weather data, containing "Weather Condition", "Temperature", "Humidity", "Precipitation Probability" and "Wind Speed".
• Extracts the summary of the next 8 days (including the current day), containing "Weather Condition", "Day Name", "Minimum Temperature" and "Maximum Temperature" for each day.
• Extracts the wind data for the next 15 days with 3 hour intervals, containing "Wind Speed", "Wind Direction", and "Wind Bearing".
• Extracts a hourly forecast for the next 15 days, containing "Temperature", "Humidity", "Precipitation Probability", "Weather Condition" and "Wind Speed".

Units

The main function get_forecast() accepts an optional output_units parameter which has to be a dictionary with the following structure:

• temp:
  • c for Celsius
  • f for Farenheit
• speed:
  • mph for Miles per Hour
  • km/h for Kilometers per Hour