We are going to add a class named Request that will be responsible for getting the data from the weather website. Let's add a file named request.py in the weatherterm/core directory with the following content:
import osfrom selenium import webdriverclass Request: def __init__(self, base_url): self._phantomjs_path = os.path.join(os.curdir, 'phantomjs/bin/phantomjs') self._base_url = base_url self._driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(self._phantomjs_path) def fetch_data(self, forecast, area): url = self._base_url.format(forecast=forecast, area=area) self._driver.get(url) if self._driver.title == '404 Not Found': error_message = ('Could not find the area that you ' 'searching for') raise Exception(error_message) ...
