Not showing measures in results when using Weatherbit API

Question

Using Python, need to display the current weather data using the website API https://www.weatherbit.io/api. Weather data should be displayed in text form. I got something like this, but it's not working as expected, as a result it shows following without measures:

#Output

 Enter city name : Paris
 Temperature (in kelvin unit) = ['temp']
 atmospheric pressure (in hPa unit) = ['pres']
 humidity (in percentage) = ['rh']
 description = ['description']

Full code:

# import required modules
import requests, json

# Enter your API key here
api_key = "API_key"

# base_url variable to store url
base_url = "https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current?"
# Give city name
city_name = input("Enter city name : ")

# complete_url variable to store
# complete url address
complete_url = base_url + "appid=" + api_key + "&q=" + city_name

# get method of requests module
# return response object
response = requests.get(complete_url)

# json method of response object
# convert json format data into
# python format data
x = response.json()


# store the value corresponding
# to the "temp" key of y
current_temperature = ["temp"]

# store the value corresponding
# to the "pressure" key of y
current_pressure = ["pres"]

# store the value corresponding
# to the "humidity" key of y
current_humidity = ["rh"]

# store the value of "weather"
# key in variable z
z = ["weather"]

# store the value corresponding
# to the "description" key at
# the 0th index of z
weather_description = ["description"]

# print following values
print(" Temperature (in kelvin unit) = " +
      str(current_temperature) +
      "\n atmospheric pressure (in hPa unit) = " +
      str(current_pressure) +
      "\n humidity (in percentage) = " +
      str(current_humidity) +
      "\n description = " +
      str(weather_description))

Answer 1

You forgot x in all lines.

To make it more readable I will use name data instead of miningless x.

data = response.json()

current_temperature = data["temp"]
current_pressure    = data["pres"]
current_humidity    = data["rh"]
z                   = data["weather"]
weather_description = data["description"]

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BTW:

You could use name weather instead of z to make code more readable.

See more PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

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EDIT:

Full code with other changes (but I don't have API_KEY to test it).

• you don't need import json
• you could read API_KEY from environment (or from dot file) for security
• you don't have to create full URL but you can use get(..., params=...) for this
• you could use f-string to make code more readable
• code is more readable if you use print() for every line separatelly.

import requests

#import os
#api_key = os.getenv("API_KEY")

api_key = "API_KEY"

city_name = input("Enter city name : ")

url = "https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current" # url without `?`

payload = {
    'appid': api_key,
    'q': city_name,
}   

response = requests.get(url, params=payload)

data = response.json()

if 'error' in data:
    print('Error:', data['error'])
else:
    temperature = data["temp"]
    pressure    = data["pres"]
    humidity    = data["rh"]
    weather     = data["weather"]
    description = data["description"]

    print(f"Temperature (in kelvin unit) = {temperature}")
    print(f"atmospheric pressure (in hPa unit) = {pressure}")
    print(f"humidity (in percentage) = {humidity}")
    print(f"description = {description}")

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EDIT:

I checked API documentation for current weather and it uses different names in URL.

It has to be

payload = {
    'key': api_key,
    'city': city_name,
    #'lang': 'pl'  # for descriptions in my native language Polish
}   

And it gives temperature in data["data"][0]["temp"], pressure in data["data"][0]["pres"], etc. - so it needs

temperature = data["data"][0]["temp"]
pressure    = data["data"][0]["pres"]
# etc.

or you can do

data = data['data'][0]

temperature = data["temp"]
pressure    = data["pres"]

It also gives description in data["data"][0]["weather"]["description"]

In other requests it may have more results then [0] so you may need to use for-loop

data = data['data']

for item in data:
    temperature = item["temp"]
    pressure    = item["pres"]
    print(f"Temperature (in kelvin unit) = {temperature}")
    print(f"atmospheric pressure (in hPa unit) = {pressure}")

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import requests

#import os
#api_key = os.getenv("API_KEY")

api_key = "ef.............................."

#city_name = input("Enter city name : ")

city_name = 'Warsaw'
url = "https://api.weatherbit.io/v2.0/current" # url without `?`

payload = {
    'key': api_key,
    'city': city_name,
    #'lang': 'pl'  # for descriptions in my native language Polish
}   

response = requests.get(url, params=payload)

data = response.json()

if 'error' in data:
    print('Error:', data['error'])
else:
    #print(data)
    
    data = data['data'][0]
    
    temperature = data["temp"]
    pressure    = data["pres"]
    humidity    = data["rh"]
    weather     = data["weather"]
    description = data["weather"]["description"]
    
    print(f"Temperature (in kelvin unit) = {temperature}")
    print(f"atmospheric pressure (in hPa unit) = {pressure}")
    print(f"humidity (in percentage) = {humidity}")
    print(f"description = {description}")