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AccuWeather-Reston - Extract, parse and store JSON Data 

This small project is intended to collect the data of weather for a specific location say Reston and store it in json file. 
It uses the AccuWeather API to get the weather data. It can forecast the data for next 5 days or can get the current weather data of that location.

Build Environment:

This project is buit on python version 3.8.2

The librabries used has the follwing versions:
requests 2.22.0
pytest 6.0.1
ujson 3.1.0

Please run the requirements.txt to install the above dependancies as follows:

pip install -r requirements.txt 


Run:

Use either python or python3 command to run the weather.py file. This will get the weather forecast of next five days.
e.g. python3 weather.py

We can specify the postal code as command line argument to get the forecast of that postal code.
e.g. python3 weather.py --p 20190

We can optionally provide the command line argument to get the current weather of Reston.
e.g. python3 weather.py --c curr

We can also specify the outfile name through command line.
e.g. python3 weather.py --p 20190 --o reston_weather.json

The program can run with all the arguments giving the current weather of postal code and outputting the json of given name.
e,g. python3 weather.py --c curr --p 20190 --o reston_curr_weather.json

The file test.py contains the test cases that tests the weather.py.
Note: This takes the input as json file in one of the test case. The path of the file may needs to be updated. 
e.g. python3 test.py

Samples of raw data and processed data can be found in "Sample" folder.