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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:26:11 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 11/12/25 02:21, vallor wrote:
>> At 11 Nov 2025 20:16:41 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:22:22 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/10/25 02:46, rbowman wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:36:58 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/9/25 14:28, rbowman wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:25:36 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try to predict the weather using Python.  You'll be getting
>>>>>>>> tomorrows forecast next week, or even next month.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How about in a second or two?  The starting point is
>>>>>>>        url =
>>>>>>>        f"https://api.weather.gov/points/{latitude},{longitude}"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      Keep getting "invalid point"
>>>>>
>>>>> Try
>>>>>
>>>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/42.934,-90.567
>>>>
>>>>     That works ... but change the coords a bit and it won't. Seems it
>>>>     only knows a handful of locations.
>>>
>>> I picked that at random.
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/36.934,-72.567 Chincoteague, VA
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/40.934,-94.567 Lenox, IA
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/36.934,-84.567 Burnside KY
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/58.114,-134.666 Juneau, AK
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/38.114,-134.666 no data, but it's 886
>>> km off the coast of northern California.
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/19.66,-156.012 Kailua, HI
>>>
>>> You do have to pick points in the US.
>>>
>>> https://api.weather.gov/points/51.130,-114.218 is Calgary AB and no
>>> data.
>> 
>> This is pretty slick.  I was able to grab the local weather forecast. 
>> It even includes icons for the weather.
>> 
>> Thank you for posting about it.
> 
>    All I get are pages of links to links to links ...
> 
>    And 'icons' are NOT what I'm looking for - I want comma/tab-delimited
>    tables which automation can easily get/process.

It's JSON. If you can't process that you might want to join the 21st 
century. That's what you're going to get out of most REST APIs.