lookups_all.py

# Code written by Nathan starts here (weather_Lookup function modified by Lukas)
from weather import Weather
""" Weather-api is a library used to retrieve weather data from yahoo weather api and convert it to a dictionary.
Version: 0.0.3 (Must be this version otherwise doesn't work)       Source: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/weather-api"""

from google import search
"""  Google is a library used to scrape results from google searches.
Source : https://github.com/MarioVilas/google"""

import requests
"""library for opening URLs"""

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 
""" BeautifulSoup is a library used for parsing webpages to html, and obtaining data through html format 
Source: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4"""


def searchResults(query):     # Needs to return a string of results instead of a generator object
    """takes an input query, and returns number of websites and descriptions"""
    search_results = ""
    i=0
    for url in search(query, tld='com', lang='en', num = 1, stop=3, pause = 3.0):
    #for each URL found in google search
        response = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
        metas = soup.find_all('meta')
        metasList = list(meta.attrs['content'] for meta in metas if 'name' in meta.attrs and meta.attrs['name'] == 'description')
        #retrieve description of URL
        #line 15-16 reference:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38009787/how-to-extract-meta-description-from-urls-using-python, date:  June 24 2016
        desc = ''.join(metasList)
        #convert list to string 
        i+=1
        url_and_desc = "\n" + str(i) + ") " + url + "\n" + desc + "\n"
        search_results += url_and_desc
    return search_results

        
def weather_Lookup(area):    # A problem with temp, some cities return the wrong temperature
    """takes an input if an area, outputs weather conditions based on location and time"""
    # Returns dictionary in the following format: 
    # 'date': 'Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:00 PM GMT', 
    # 'code': '26', 
    # 'text': 'Cloudy', 
    # 'temp': '43'            
    area.lower()
    #for continuity
    weather = Weather()
    try:
        location = weather.lookup_by_location(area)
        condition = location.condition()
        answer = "The date is: " + condition['date'] + ", the sky is " + condition['text'] + " and the temperature is " + str(int(round((int(condition['temp'])-32)*5/9, 0))) + " degrees celsius."
        return answer
    except AttributeError:
    #if location does not exist
        return "Location: ",area," does not exist; do you think I'm dumb?"
# Code written by Nathan ends here.