Weather-tk, a very basic weather app

Weather-tk is an app written in Python that shows the current weather. Weather data is fetched using the Openweathermap API.

This project is a learning experience for me. Everything in this repo is licensed under the MIT license.

Screenshot:

The look of the UI may vary depending on your OS.

Dependencies

• Python 3 (duh)
• Python modules:
  • tkinter, used for GUI
  • urllib.{request, parse, error}, to process http requests
  • json, to parse weather data
  • io, to pass downloaded icons to pillow
  • pillow, used for icon support (the only one that needs to be manually installed using pip)
  • datetime, to show times
• An openweathermap API key, used to get weather data

More dependencies may be required as the proeject goes on.

How to run

• You will need an API key from openweathermap, you can get one for free in their website by creating an account.
• Copy and paste your API key in a file named api_key.txt and place it in the same directory as weather-tk.py.
• Then simply run python weather-tk.py.

Roadmap

• Add multithreading so that the UI doesn't freeze when getting data from the API (done)
• Add weather icons (done)
• Add daily forecast for 7 days (done)
• Add hourly forecast for 24 hours
• Add searched location history (done)
• Probably change how icons are cached
• Maybe add theme support

Contribution

This project is open to suggestions and pull requests. Hit me up if you have any ideas regarding this project or even anything else.