Python Programming Blueprints

Getting five- and ten-day weather forecasts

The site that we are currently scraping the weather forecast from (weather.com) also provides the weather forecast for five and ten days, so in this section, we are going to implement methods to parse these forecast options as well.

The markup of the pages that present data for five and ten days are very similar; they have the same DOM structure and share the same CSS classes, which makes it easier for us to implement just one method that will work for both options. Let's go ahead and add a new method to the wheater_com_parser.py file with the following contents:

def _parse_list_forecast(self, content, args):    criteria = {        'date-time': 'span',        'day-detail': 'span',        'description': 'td', 'temp': 'td', ...