alternativeWeather.py

#Programmed by Premo
#Simple weather program gets the current temperature in a given city directly
#from a given website and returns the information it found from a given part
#of the same website

from selenium import webdriver
#Selenium web driver imported 

def weather(city):
    #The instance of chrome Web driver is created
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    day = str(input("What day would you like to know the forecast for?")).lower()
    #driver will get
    driver.get("https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/"+city+"")
    #Program can only get weather forecast for the day if the day is not today it will return nothing
    if "today" in day:
        #the element we require will be found by its class name which we have defined
        #the class name can be located by inspecting html source of the webpage
        #and finding the relevant region
      return("It is " + driver.find_elements_by_class_name("h2")[0].text + " now.")
    else:
      return None

#Prompts the user to put in a given city which will be used in the function defined above
city = str(input("Which city would you like me to check?")).lower()
weather(city)