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CLI Weather App in Python Project- Full Guide
The CLI Weather App is a lightweight Python application that runs in your terminal and retrieves the current weather for any city in the world.
Description
📘 Project Title
Command-Line Weather App in Python
📄 Project Description
The CLI Weather App is a lightweight Python application that runs in your terminal and retrieves the current weather for any city in the world. It uses the OpenWeatherMap API to fetch real-time weather information, and displays it in a simple, readable format.
This project is ideal for beginners who want to practice using APIs, working with JSON data, and building clean command-line tools in Python.
🚀 Key Features
🔍 City-Based Weather Search
- Input a city name directly in the terminal
- Fetches current weather conditions using the OpenWeatherMap API
📊 Weather Data Display
- Shows:
- City and country
- Temperature (°C)
- Weather description (e.g., “broken clouds”)
- Humidity
- Wind speed
⚙️ Error Handling
- Displays a clear message if:
- The city is not found
- The API key is invalid
- There is no internet connection
📦 Technologies Used
- Python 3
- requests (for API calls)
- json (to parse responses)
- (Optionally) argparse or click (for command-line arguments)
📂 Example Output
BASH:
$ python weather_cli.py
Enter city name: London
📍 Weather in London, GB:
🌡️ Temperature: 19.3°C
🌤️ Description: Light Rain
💧 Humidity: 78%
💨 Wind Speed: 5.2 m/s
🧠 Learning Outcomes
By building this CLI Weather App, you will learn to:
✅ Use Python to consume RESTful APIs
✅ Parse and display JSON data in a clean format
✅ Build a command-line interface with user input
✅ Handle exceptions and error conditions gracefully
✅ Use the requests library effectively
🛠️ Potential Extensions
You can extend the project with:
- A 5-day CLI forecast
- Support for command-line arguments (e.g. python weather_cli.py –city Paris)
- Colored output using libraries like colorama or rich
- Support for saving history to a .txt or .csv file
- Packaging it into an installable CLI tool with setuptools
✅ Summary
- Ideal for beginners and intermediate Python learners
- Runs entirely in the terminal
- Helps you practice API usage, error handling, and CLI development
- No HTML, JS, or web framework required
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