Get Current Weather by Location with OpenWeather API API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Get Current Weather by Location with the OpenWeather API API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Get Current Weather by Location action
1. Connect your OpenWeather API account
2. Configure City
3. Optional- Configure State code
4. Optional- Configure Country Code
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Get Current Weather by Location on OpenWeather API

Description:Retrieves the current weather condition by location longitude and latitude. [See the docs here](https://openweathermap.org/current). For more accurate reading, you are advised to fill in the country and/or state code

Version:0.0.1

Key:openweather_api-get-current-weather-by-location

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Code#

import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";
import openweatherApi from "../../openweather_api.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "openweather_api-get-current-weather-by-location",
  name: "Get Current Weather by Location",
  description: `Retrieves the current weather condition by location longitude and latitude. 
  [See the docs here](https://openweathermap.org/current). For more accurate reading, you are advised to fill in the country and/or state code`,
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    openweatherApi,
    city: {
      propDefinition: [
        openweatherApi,
        "city",
      ],
    },
    stateCode: {
      propDefinition: [
        openweatherApi,
        "stateCode",
      ],
    },
    countryCode: {
      propDefinition: [
        openweatherApi,
        "countryCode",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const appid = this.openweatherApi.$auth.api_key;
    const limit = 1;
    const {
      city,
      stateCode,
      countryCode,
    } = this;
    let location;
    try {
      const qParam = [
        city,
        stateCode,
      ];
      countryCode && qParam.push(countryCode);
      location = await this.openweatherApi.getLocationCordinate({
        q: qParam.join(","),
        limit,
        appid,
      }, $);
      if (!location?.length) {
        throw new Error();
      }
      const locationDetail = location?.length &&
        Object
          .entries(location[0])
          .map((x) => (x.join("=")))
          .join();
      locationDetail && $.export("$summary", `Location retrieved: ${locationDetail}. Getting weather report...`);
    } catch (error) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("Error getting location coordinates");
    }

    const weather = await this.openweatherApi.getCurrentWeather({
      lat: location[0].lat,
      lon: location[0].lon,
      appid,
    }, $);
    weather && $.export("$summary", `${location[0].name},${location[0]?.state} weather report loaded.`);
    return weather;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
OpenWeather API	`openweatherApi`	`app`	This component uses the OpenWeather API app.
City	`city`	`string`	City location. For example "Houston" in the United States.
State code	`stateCode`	`string`	State code. For example "TX" for Texas.
Country Code	`countryCode`	`string`	The 2 or 3-letter country code, for example "US" for the United States.

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