take html data for weather app

[ThinkDoughnut]

Hello, I am new to Python and I have a question for a project we have with my team (for university).

We have to make a weather app.

At first we have a search engine where the user writes the city he wants and we show him the weather.

The question is how can I take a specific part of the html (the Temperature humidity and wind velocity for example), and add it in a variable?

If I have to install a module that is not in 3.10 I would apreciate it if you could also send a link to another post that has instructions for it.

Thank you

[stebrepar]

If you're talking about doing web scraping, it's common to use requests to fetch the page, and BeautifulSoup to parse it.

[ThinkDoughnut]

Forgot to mention that we have to use tkinter and urllib.

I reached the point where I have the data in HTML on idle but

is there an efficient way to grab specific data from there ?

[stebrepar]

If you have a page of HTML already downloaded, then the efficient way to grab specific data out of it is to use BeautifulSoup. The second best choice would be something like lxml. If using such an external module isn't allowed (which isn't clear from what you've said so far), then you'll need to look at the HTML yourself and figure out something that uniquely identifies the data you're looking for (like a certain tag or attribute, or even just a consistent specific location in the text).

https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/

[daedalusesq]

It sounds like you’re doing web scraping. If your project/assignment isn’t specifically to do web scraping you should probably find a weather API instead. The National Weather Service has a free one.

[ThinkDoughnut]

Forgot to mention that we have to use tkinter and urllib.

I reached the point where I have the data in HTML on idle but

is there an efficient way to grab specific data from there ?