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OpenWeatherMap

OpenWeatherMap provides all essential weather data for a specific location:

  • Current weather
  • Minute forecast for 1 hour
  • Hourly forecast for 48 hours
  • Daily forecast for 8 days
  • National weather alerts
  • Historical weather data for 40+ years back

This page covers how to use the OpenWeatherMap API within LangChain.

Installation and Setup​

  • Install requirements with
pip install pyowm
  • Go to OpenWeatherMap and sign up for an account to get your API key here
  • Set your API key as OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY environment variable

Wrappers​

Utility​

There exists a OpenWeatherMapAPIWrapper utility which wraps this API. To import this utility:

from langchain_community.utilities.openweathermap import OpenWeatherMapAPIWrapper

For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, see this notebook.

Tool​

You can also easily load this wrapper as a Tool (to use with an Agent). You can do this with:

from langchain.agents import load_tools
tools = load_tools(["openweathermap-api"])
API Reference:load_tools

For more information on tools, see this page.

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