script to take a country name and return a woeid using yahoo api

yahoo_woeid.py

import requests

def get_woeid(text):
    if not text:
        return
 
    app_id = "YOUR YAHOO APP ID"
 
    if not app_id:
        raise NotImplementedError('WOEID App Id is empty.')
 
    url = 'http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(\'%s\')?appid=%s&format=json' % (text, app_id)
 
    r = requests.get(url)
    
    name = r.json()['places']['place'][0]['name']
    woeid = r.json()['places']['place'][0]['woeid']
    
    return {'name':name,
            'woeid':woeid}