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Creating a Weather App in Django Using Python Requests [Part 1]
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In this video I'll create a weather app in Django that gets the current weathers for multiple cities. To do this, I'll use Python Requests to call the Open Weather Map API.
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project and adding an app.', 'The process of setting up templates and defining URLs and views for the weather app is detailed.']}, {'end': 912.44, 'segs': [{'end': 593.118, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 512.114, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 513.395, 'text': "That's why we can see it here.", 'start': 512.114, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 518.462, 'text': 'The next thing I want to do is I want to pass this data to the template.', 'start': 515.041, 'duration': 3.421}, {'end': 525.466, 'text': "Well, I want to pass the relevant data because a lot of this data I won't be using, but there is some data that is pretty important.", 'start': 518.523, 'duration': 6.943}, {'end': 534.51, 'text': 'Basically looking at this, I need the name of the city, I need the temperature in Fahrenheit, I need a description of the weather and I need the icon.', 'start': 525.586, 'duration': 8.924}, {'end': 542.054, 'text': 'The icon, the temperature, and the description come from the API, and then the city, of 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580.877, 'text': "So that's what .json is doing.", 'start': 579.337, 'duration': 1.54}, {'end': 584.199, 'text': 'So there are four things that I said I want.', 'start': 581.658, 'duration': 2.541}, {'end': 584.919, 'text': 'I want the city.', 'start': 584.279, 'duration': 0.64}, {'end': 587.661, 'text': 'I want the temperature.', 'start': 586.52, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 593.118, 'text': 'I want the description of the weather there.', 'start': 590.274, 'duration': 2.844}], 'summary': "Creating a dictionary 'city weather' with city name, temperature, weather description and icon from api and app data.", 'duration': 81.004, 'max_score': 512.114, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY512114.jpg'}, {'end': 747.94, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 714.384, 'weight': 0.713, 'content': [{'end': 728.512, 'text': "context variable and I'll just call this city weather and then I'll pass in the actual dictionary there and then I'll 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'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 1014.158, 'text': 'And now what I want to do is I want to actually query for those cities.', 'start': 1010.254, 'duration': 3.904}, {'end': 1020.603, 'text': 'So if I go back to the homepage, what I expect to see is the weather for each of those three cities that I have.', 'start': 1014.418, 'duration': 6.185}, {'end': 1027.268, 'text': 'So to do that, I need to first query the database for all the cities that I have.', 'start': 1021.924, 'duration': 5.344}, {'end': 1033.446, 'text': "So inside of views here, what I'll do is I'll just add the query here.", 'start': 1027.448, 'duration': 5.998}, {'end': 1037.829, 'text': 'So cities is going to be equal to city, objects, all.', 'start': 1033.867, 'duration': 3.962}, {'end': 1041.031, 'text': 'And of course, I need to import city from models.', 'start': 1037.97, 'duration': 3.061}], 'summary': 'Configuring admin dashboard, adding cities, querying for cities', 'duration': 103.046, 'max_score': 919.047, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY919047.jpg'}, {'end': 1092.6, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1063.136, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1067.82, 'text': 'And what I want to do is I want to get the weather for each city and append it to a list.', 'start': 1063.136, 'duration': 4.684}, {'end': 1072.363, 'text': "So I'll call this list weather data.", 'start': 1068.68, 'duration': 3.683}, {'end': 1083.176, 'text': "And here at the bottom, I'm going to append this city weather dictionary that I create for each city.", 'start': 1074.639, 'duration': 8.537}, {'end': 1085.316, 'text': 'just like that.', 'start': 1084.736, 'duration': 0.58}, {'end': 1089.718, 'text': "So what it's doing is it's going to loop over all the cities that I have in the database.", 'start': 1085.797, 'duration': 3.921}, {'end': 1092.6, 'text': "And for each one, it's going to query the API.", 'start': 1090.059, 'duration': 2.541}], 'summary': 'Loop 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{'end': 1165.659, 'text': 'the object is something that you work with in python.', 'start': 1163.097, 'duration': 2.562}, {'end': 1170.244, 'text': "the name is something that you're actually displaying to the user.", 'start': 1165.659, 'duration': 4.585}, {'end': 1178.48, 'text': "so now, instead of passing city weather, i'm going to pass weather data to the template and then I'll go into my template again.", 'start': 1170.244, 'duration': 8.236}, {'end': 1188.688, 'text': "And when I'm looping over something like this, I want to find out where the HTML repeats because I want to have that HTML be inside of my loop.", 'start': 1178.5, 'duration': 10.188}], 'summary': 'Update code to pass weather data instead of city name, for improved functionality and user display.', 'duration': 45.151, 'max_score': 1143.537, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY1143537.jpg'}], 'start': 912.76, 'title': 'Creating admin dashboard and retrieving weather data for cities', 'summary': 'Discusses creating an admin dashboard to manage cities, making migrations, adding cities, and querying city data. it also explains the process of querying an api for weather data of multiple cities and displaying it in a template, resulting in a list of three elements containing the weather and city names for each city.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1061.815, 'start': 912.76, 'title': 'Creating admin dashboard for managing cities', 'summary': 'Discusses creating an admin dashboard to manage cities, including making migrations, adding cities to the dashboard, and querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage.', 'duration': 149.055, 'highlights': ['Creating admin dashboard to manage cities The chapter discusses creating an admin dashboard to manage cities.', 'Adding cities to the admin dashboard The process of adding cities to the admin dashboard is explained, with examples such as Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Melbourne.', 'Querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage The process of querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage is outlined.', 'Making migrations and migrating The process of making migrations and migrating is mentioned in the context of managing cities.']}, {'end': 1243.895, 'start': 1063.136, 'title': 'Retrieving weather data for cities', 'summary': 'Explains the process of querying an api for weather data of multiple cities, appending the data to a list, and displaying it in a template, resulting in a list of three elements containing the weather and city names for each city.', 'duration': 180.759, 'highlights': ['The process involves querying an API for each city in the database, creating a city weather dictionary for each city, and appending it to the weather data list, resulting in a list of three elements if there are three cities in the database.', 'The issue of city object representation instead of the city name is identified and resolved by using city.name instead of city, ensuring the correct city names are displayed, addressing a minor problem in the process.', 'The template is modified to loop over the weather data list to create a box for each city, enabling the display of weather data for each city in the template.']}], 'duration': 331.135, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY912760.jpg', 'highlights': ['Adding cities to the admin dashboard The process of adding cities to the admin dashboard is explained, with examples such as Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Melbourne.', 'The process involves querying an API for each city in the database, creating a city weather dictionary for each city, and appending it to the weather data list, resulting in a list of three elements if there are three cities in the database.', 'The template is modified to loop over the weather data list to create a box for each city, enabling the display of weather data for each city in the template.', 'Querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage The process of querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage is outlined.', 'Creating admin dashboard to manage cities The chapter discusses creating an admin dashboard to manage cities.', 'The issue of city object representation instead of the city name is identified and resolved by using city.name instead of city, ensuring the correct city names are displayed, addressing a minor problem in the process.', 'Making migrations and migrating The process of making migrations and migrating is mentioned in the context of managing cities.']}, {'end': 1708.864, 'segs': [{'end': 1319.823, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1245.456, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1251.639, 'text': 'So the last major thing that I want to do is I want to allow the user to actually type in a city here and add it.', 'start': 1245.456, 'duration': 6.183}, {'end': 1259.595, 'text': "that way i don't have to go into the admin dashboard and add the cities myself.", 'start': 1253.522, 'duration': 6.073}, {'end': 1269.631, 'text': "so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go into my app and create a new file called forms.py.", 'start': 1259.595, 'duration': 10.036}, {'end': 1275.554, 'text': "Inside of forms, I'm going to say from Django.Forms, import.", 'start': 1270.572, 'duration': 4.982}, {'end': 1281.656, 'text': 'I want to import model form because my form is basically the same as the model.', 'start': 1275.934, 'duration': 5.722}, {'end': 1286.178, 'text': "I'm only concerned with the name of the city, so I don't need to create a custom form.", 'start': 1281.776, 'duration': 4.402}, {'end': 1288.059, 'text': 'I can just create a form based off that model.', 'start': 1286.198, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 1292.181, 'text': 'Then I know I need to import text input because I need to do something with it.', 'start': 1288.799, 'duration': 3.382}, {'end': 1298.646, 'text': "then I'm going to say from models, import city and I'll go ahead and create the form.", 'start': 1292.981, 'duration': 5.665}, {'end': 1301.228, 'text': 'so class is going to be city form,', 'start': 1298.646, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 1312.377, 'text': "it's going to be a model form and then I need to define the meta class so I can assign the model to be city and then the fields that I'm interested in,", 'start': 1301.228, 'duration': 11.149}, {'end': 1313.698, 'text': 'our only name.', 'start': 1312.377, 'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 1319.823, 'text': "so just one field, and then I'll use text input in a second when I show you what goes wrong.", 'start': 1313.698, 'duration': 6.125}], 'summary': 'Allow users to add cities to the app for easier management.', 'duration': 74.367, 'max_score': 1245.456, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY1245456.jpg'}, {'end': 1449.61, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 1418.104, 'weight': 0.798, 'content': [{'end': 1420.906, 'text': "You'll see that it doesn't reset the city.", 'start': 1418.104, 'duration': 2.802}, {'end': 1426.811, 'text': 'This is what it looks like when I pass the form.', 'start': 1422.587, 'duration': 4.224}, {'end': 1431.034, 'text': "Form is form, and then in the template, I'll find the form that I have.", 'start': 1426.951, 'duration': 4.083}, {'end': 1439.42, 'text': "Basically, it's just one single input, and this A should be a button.", 'start': 1432.515, 'duration': 6.905}, {'end': 1440.641, 'text': 'Let me update that.', 'start': 1439.7, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 1444.665, 'text': "And it's going to be type submit.", 'start': 1443.163, 'duration': 1.502}, {'end': 1449.61, 'text': 'So type submit, just like that.', 'start': 1445.626, 'duration': 3.984}], 'summary': "The form contains one input and a submit button with the type 'submit'.", 'duration': 31.506, 'max_score': 1418.104, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY1418104.jpg'}, {'end': 1639.219, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1613.103, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1618.106, 'text': 'So now the last thing I want to do to get that working is I can use the functionality that model form gives me.', 'start': 1613.103, 'duration': 5.003}, {'end': 1622.609, 'text': 'So first I need to instantiate the form using the request data.', 'start': 1618.546, 'duration': 4.063}, {'end': 1630.954, 'text': 'So city form and then request.posts and then form.save will both validate it and save it to the database at the same time.', 'start': 1622.689, 'duration': 8.265}, {'end': 1632.195, 'text': 'So form.save.', 'start': 1631.334, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 1635.397, 'text': 'So now this should be it.', 'start': 1634.437, 'duration': 0.96}, {'end': 1639.219, 'text': "So if I add another city in here, I'll use my original city, Las Vegas.", 'start': 1635.558, 'duration': 3.661}], 'summary': 'Using model form to validate and save city data to the database.', 'duration': 26.116, 'max_score': 1613.103, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY1613103.jpg'}], 'start': 1245.456, 'title': 'Django city form creation and view logic', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a django form for users to add cities, eliminating manual addition through the admin dashboard. it covers form file creation, necessary module imports, model form definition, handling form submissions, adding attributes to form widgets, and saving form data to the database, resulting in successful city additions.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1319.823, 'start': 1245.456, 'title': 'Django city form creation', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a django form to allow users to add cities, which eliminates the need to manually add cities through the admin dashboard. it covers creating a form file, importing necessary modules, and defining the city form with the model form and text input.', 'duration': 74.367, 'highlights': ['Creating a new file called forms.py and importing necessary modules such as model form and text input. The speaker plans to create a new file called forms.py and import essential modules like model form and text input to facilitate the city addition feature.', 'Defining the city form as a model form and specifying the model as city with the only interested field being the name of the city. The process involves defining the city form as a model form, setting the model as city, and specifying the name as the only field of interest for the form.']}, {'end': 1708.864, 'start': 1319.823, 'title': 'Django view logic and form handling', 'summary': 'Covers the process of handling form submissions in django views, including handling post requests, instantiating forms, adding attributes to form widgets, and saving form data to the database, resulting in the successful addition of cities to the database.', 'duration': 389.041, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers the process of handling form submissions in Django views, including instantiating forms, adding attributes to form widgets, and saving form data to the database, resulting in the successful addition of cities to the database.', 'The form is instantiated and attributes are added to form widgets to ensure that the form restarts blank after each submission, preventing the retention of previously submitted data on page reload, maintaining the desired functionality of the form.', 'The functionality of model form is utilized to instantiate the form using the request data and save the validated data to the database, enabling the successful addition of cities to the database upon form submission.', 'The video creator encourages viewers to explore further modifications and enhancements to the app, such as adding the ability to delete cities and incorporating additional weather information, and provides a link to the code and a free course on Django Database Essentials.', 'The video creator encourages viewers to leave comments for any questions, promotes a free course on Django Database Essentials, and requests viewers to like and subscribe to the channel.', 'The video creator demonstrates the process of handling form submissions in Django views and successfully adding cities to the database through practical coding examples and explanations, showcasing the effective implementation of form handling logic.']}], 'duration': 463.408, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/v7xjdXWZafY/pics/v7xjdXWZafY1245456.jpg', 'highlights': ['The video creator demonstrates the process of handling form submissions in Django views and successfully adding cities to the database through practical coding examples and explanations, showcasing the effective implementation of form handling logic.', 'The chapter covers the process of handling form submissions in Django views, including instantiating forms, adding attributes to form widgets, and saving form data to the database, resulting in the successful addition of cities to the database.', 'The functionality of model form is utilized to instantiate the form using the request data and save the validated data to the database, enabling the successful addition of cities to the database upon form submission.', 'Defining the city form as a model form and specifying the model as city with the only interested field being the name of the city. The process involves defining the city form as a model form, setting the model as city, and specifying the name as the only field of interest for the form.', 'Creating a new file called forms.py and importing necessary modules such as model form and text input. The speaker plans to create a new file called forms.py and import essential modules like model form and text input to facilitate the city addition feature.']}], 'highlights': ['The video creator demonstrates the process of handling form submissions in Django views and successfully adding cities to the database through practical coding examples and explanations, showcasing the effective implementation of form handling logic.', 'The chapter covers the process of handling form submissions in Django views, including instantiating forms, adding attributes to form widgets, and saving form data to the database, resulting in the successful addition of cities to the database.', 'The functionality of model form is utilized to instantiate the form using the request data and save the validated data to the database, enabling the successful addition of cities to the database upon form submission.', 'Defining the city form as a model form and specifying the model as city with the only interested field being the name of the city. The process involves defining the city form as a model form, setting the model as city, and specifying the name as the only field of interest for the form.', 'Creating a new file called forms.py and importing necessary modules such as model form and text input. The speaker plans to create a new file called forms.py and import essential modules like model form and text input to facilitate the city addition feature.', 'The process of integrating a weather API to display real-time weather information for a specified city, including temperature and description, is detailed, with examples of updating the city name and fetching weather data accordingly.', 'The demonstration of how changing the city name dynamically retrieves the weather data for the new city, with quantifiable data such as the temperature, description, and the corresponding icon code.', 'The chapter explains the process of passing relevant weather data to a template for display. The speaker discusses the need to pass relevant data to the template for display, emphasizing the importance of specific weather information such as city name, temperature in Fahrenheit, weather description, and icon.', 'The significance of using .json to interpret the responses into Python dictionaries and lists is mentioned. The speaker explains the significance of using .json to interpret responses into Python dictionaries and lists, highlighting its role in converting the results of the request into a JSON object and representing it easily as dictionaries and lists in Python.', 'The required information includes city name, temperature in Fahrenheit, weather description, and icon. The speaker specifies the required weather information for display, which includes the city name, temperature in Fahrenheit, weather description, and icon.', 'The process of querying city data to display weather for each city on the homepage is outlined.', 'Creating admin dashboard to manage cities The chapter discusses creating an admin dashboard to manage cities.', 'The issue of city object representation instead of the city name is identified and resolved by using city.name instead of city, ensuring the correct city names are displayed, addressing a minor problem in the process.', 'Making migrations and migrating The process of making migrations and migrating is mentioned in the context of managing cities.', 'Adding cities to the admin dashboard The process of adding cities to the admin dashboard is explained, with examples such as Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Melbourne.', 'The process involves querying an API for each city in the database, creating a city weather dictionary for each city, and appending it to the weather data list, resulting in a list of three elements if there are three cities in the database.', 'The template is modified to loop over the weather data list to create a box for each city, enabling the display of weather data for each city in the template.', 'The chapter provides examples of API calls and explains the URL structure required to fetch weather data.', 'The tutorial emphasizes the use of Fahrenheit as the unit of measurement for fetching temperature data.', 'The process of integrating the OpenWeatherMap API in Python to fetch weather data is detailed.', "A super user is created with the username 'Anthony' and the email 'prettyprinted.com'.", 'The speaker sets up a Django environment for a weather app, including creating a project and adding an app.', 'The process of setting up templates and defining URLs and views for the weather app is detailed.', "The need for displaying weather for multiple cities is addressed, with the plan to create a database table named 'City' to store city names and the intention to loop over all cities to perform a request for each one to get the weather for each city.", "Mention of a free course 'Django Database Essentials' available on the website with a link provided.", 'Offering the code for the video and starting file in the description.', 'Creating an app in Django to display current weather in various cities using a dynamic template.', 'Use of the open weather map API for obtaining weather data.']}