From baf7188753f7dfeee711ee694752da149216a844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hanne Heggdal <hannhegg@stud.ntnu.no>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:08:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] function to fetch current data

---
 src/my_package/fetch_current_data.py | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/my_package/fetch_current_data.py

diff --git a/src/my_package/fetch_current_data.py b/src/my_package/fetch_current_data.py
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+++ b/src/my_package/fetch_current_data.py
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+# Import of needed libaries
+import requests
+import os
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+load_dotenv()
+
+# Gets the key, from my env file
+API_KEY = os.getenv("API_KEY")
+
+# city_name = "Trondheim"
+country_code = "NO"
+
+
+# Gets the data from the API - openweathermap.org
+def fetch_current_data(city_name):
+   
+
+    # f-string url, to add the "custom" variables to the API-request
+    url = f"https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={city_name},NO&units=metric&appid={API_KEY}"
+    
+    # Saves the API-request for the url 
+    response = requests.get(url)
+
+    # Checks if the status code is OK
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        
+        # Converts the data into json
+        data = response.json()
+        folder = "../data/output_current_data"
+
+        print("Data fetch: ok")
+        return data, folder
+    
+
+    else:
+        # If html status code != 200, print the status code
+        print("Failed to fetch data from API. Status code:", response.status_code) 
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