Weather Underground API example

This is a teaching example for consuming APIs. This ExpressJS app acts as an API proxy to the Weather Underground API. It returns JSON to the client.

Prerequisites

• A working NodeJS environment on your machine
• A Weather Underground API key. Get one here

Install and Run

• Clone this repo

• npm install

• node server

• from your shell, export WUNDERAPI=e6a3fx54579626e0 <- replace with your key

• visit /current/city , e.g. http://localhost:3000/current/Seattle

Routes examples:

Put any string after the trailing slash in /current/...

 /current/:city-name
 /current/:city-name,state

Homework

• instead of returning all the JSON, return only the current temperature in F or C
• create a new route to show the forecast gif image. For example if the forecast is rain, an image of rain should be shown. Don't duplicate the request code

LICENSE

MIT