Retrieve temperature and weather conditions with this simple Python weather client using Weather Underground, Requests, and BeautifulSoup.

get_weather.py

# Screen scraping information from Weather Underground at https://www.wunderground.com/ is for
# example purposes only. Try the Weather Underground API at https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api
# Project adapted from Michael Kennedy's Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps course

# Standard Library
from collections import namedtuple
# Third Party
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

WeatherReport = namedtuple("WeatherReport", "loc condition temp scale")

def main():
    print_header()
    code = input("What zip code for you want weather for (98092)? ")
    html = get_html_from_web(code)
    report = get_weather_from_html(html)
    print("The temperature in {} is {}°{}. Conditions are {}.".format(
        report.loc,
        report.temp,
        report.scale,
        report.condition.lower()
    ))

def print_header():
    print("--------------------------------------------------------------")
    print("                       WEATHER APP")
    print("--------------------------------------------------------------")
    print()

def get_html_from_web(zipcode):
    url = "http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/{}".format(zipcode)
    response = requests.get(url)
    return response.text

def get_weather_from_html(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
    loc = soup.find(class_="city-header").find("h1").get_text()
    condition = soup.find(class_="condition-icon").get_text()
    temp = soup.find(class_="wu-unit-temperature").find(class_="wu-value").get_text()
    scale = soup.find(class_="wu-unit-temperature").find(class_="wu-label").get_text()

    loc = cleanup_text(loc)
    condition = cleanup_text(condition)
    temp = cleanup_text(temp)
    scale = cleanup_text(scale)

    report = WeatherReport(loc=loc, condition=condition, temp=temp, scale=scale)
    return report

def cleanup_text(text: str): # example of type hints
    if not text:
        return text
    text = text.strip()
    return text

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()