Getting data from the WunderGround API

ubidots · October 3, 2014, 1:56pm

Some users recently asked about how to get data from an external API and send it to Ubidots. Use this topic to discuss ideas and solutions about this.

aguspg · October 3, 2014, 2:08pm

Hi all,

You should be able to create a variable and post external data, however, you’d have to pull the data yourself and then push it to Ubidots.

Here’s a Python example of a similar integration. It’s the actual code of how we pull the number of users we have from the Hubspot API (the marketing platform we use), and then save this value to Ubidots:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/AgustinPelaez/4945f16795e4792ca488

get_users.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Get number of REAL users from Hubspot API, then post this data to Ubidots 

"""
 
__author__ = "Agustin Pelaez"
 
from sys import argv
import ubidots

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In the case of WunderGround API, you should be able to use this code by changing the name of the variable “users” for “temperature” and also changing the HTTP GET request line, with the line to query the WU API:

http://api.wunderground.com/api/Your_Key/conditions/q/CA/San_Francisco.json

Then you can play with the JSON response to make sure it’s parsed right.