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This Python script fetches current weather data for specified cities in Canada by scraping Google search results. It utilizes the requests
library to send HTTP requests and the BeautifulSoup
library to parse HTML content.
- Python 3.x
requests
libraryBeautifulSoup
library
- Clone this repository to your local machine.
- Ensure you have Python installed. If not, download and install it from Python's official website.
- Install the required libraries using pip:
pip install requests pip install beautifulsoup4
- Open the
weather_scraper.py
file. - Modify the
cities
list to include the cities for which you want to fetch weather data. - Run the script:
python weather_scraper.py
- The script will print the current weather information for each city specified in the
cities
list.
This script scrapes weather data from Google search results, which might violate Google's terms of service. Use it at your own risk. It is recommended to explore official APIs provided by weather services for obtaining weather data.
- This script was inspired by the need to quickly retrieve weather data for specific cities without relying on external APIs.
- Special thanks to the creators and maintainers of the
requests
andBeautifulSoup
libraries for making web scraping in Python accessible.
Feel free to adjust the content according to your preferences or add any additional information you find relevant!