NAME

Weather::OpenWeatherMap - Interface to the OpenWeatherMap API

SYNOPSIS

use Weather::OpenWeatherMap;

my $api_key = 'foo';

my $wx = Weather::OpenWeatherMap->new(
  api_key => $api_key,
);

# Current conditions:
my $current = $wx->get_weather(
  location => 'Manchester, NH',
);
my $tempf = $current->temp_f;
my $wind  = $current->wind_speed_mph;
# (see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Result::Current)

# Forecast conditions:
my $forecast = $wx->get_weather(
  location => 'Manchester, NH',
  forecast => 1,
  days     => 3,
);
for my $day ($forecast->list) {
  my $date    = $day->dt->mdy;
  my $temp_lo = $day->temp_min_f,
  my $temp_hi = $day->temp_max_f,
  # (see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Result::Forecast::Day)
}
# (see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Result::Forecast)

DESCRIPTION

An object-oriented interface to retrieving weather conditions & forecasts from OpenWeatherMap (http://www.openweathermap.org/) for a given city, latitude/longitude, or OpenWeatherMap city code.

This module provides a simple blocking (LWP::UserAgent) interface to weather retrieval; if you have an event loop handy, the included Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Request & Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Result classes can be used to create appropriate HTTP::Request instances and parse responses from non-blocking HTTP clients.

See POEx::Weather::OpenWeatherMap for a non-blocking implementation using the POE ecosystem.

ATTRIBUTES

api_key

Your OpenWeatherMap API key.

(See http://www.openweathermap.org/api to register for free.)

cache

A boolean value indicating whether successful results should be cached to disk via Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Cache.

Defaults to false. This may change in a future release.

cache_dir

The directory in which cache files are saved. The default may be fine; see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Cache.

cache_expiry

The duration (in seconds) for which cache files are considered valid; see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Cache.

ua

The LWP::UserAgent instance used to issue HTTP requests; can be used to control LWP options:

my $wx = Weather::OpenWeatherMap->new(
  api_key => $my_api_key,
  ua => LWP::UserAgent->new(%lwp_opts),  
);

METHODS

get_weather

$wx->get_weather(
  # 'location =>' is mandatory.
  #  These are all valid location strings:
  #  By name:
  #   'Manchester, NH'
  #   'London, UK'
  #  By OpenWeatherMap city code:
  #   5089178
  #  By latitude/longitude:
  #   'lat 42, long -71'
  location => 'Manchester, NH',

  # Set 'forecast => 1' to get the forecast,
  # omit or set to false for current weather:
  forecast => 1,

  # If 'forecast' is true, you can specify the number of days to fetch
  # (up to 14):
  days => 3,

  # Optional tag for identifying the response to this request:
  tag  => 'foo',
);

Request a weather report for the given location =>.

The location can be a 'City, State' or 'City, Country' string, an OpenWeatherMap city code, or a 'lat X, long Y' string.

Requests the current weather by default (see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Request::Current).

If passed forecast => 1, requests a weather forecast (see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Request::Forecast), in which case days => $count can be specified (up to 14).

Any extra arguments are passed to the constructor for the appropriate Request subclass; see Weather::OpenWeatherMap::Request.

SEE ALSO

POEx::Weather::OpenWeatherMap

AUTHOR

Jon Portnoy <avenj@cobaltirc.org>