I am trying to call Dark Sky API for weather forecast data for each location in a CSV file with hundreds lines and write them to a text file. Here's an example of the first 5 lines of the CSV...
ip city region_code zip latitude longitude
75.161.17.209 Albuquerque NM 87114 35.1868 -106.6652
68.55.28.227 Plymouth MI 48170 42.3688 -83.4799
72.95.198.227 Homestead PA 15120 40.3926 -79.9052
68.180.94.219 Normal IL 61761 40.5124 -88.9883
75.132.165.245 Belleville IL 62226 38.5352 -90.0006
The uri is formatted like this...
https://api.darksky.net/forecast/[APIKey]/$latitude ,$longitude ,$ForcastTime ?exclude=currently,minutely,hourly,flags&units=us
There are 3 variables in this uri. $latitude
, $longitude
, and $ForecastTime
. $ForecastTime
is easy, because it is the same for all requests, so I have that defined already as...
$ForecastTime = Get-Date -Date $(Get-Date).AddDays(1) -Format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss
...in order to give me Tomorrow's forecast info. This is the format Dark Sky calls for and works just fine.
I'm having trouble defining $latitude
and $longitude
as variables and formatting the Invoke-WebRequest
so I can pull the weather data for the entire string of locations.
Any help would be appreciated.
Here is some sample code with Invoke-RestMethod
but you can also work with Invoke-WebRequest
. I like using Invoke-RestMethod
for interacting with APIs.. Try and let me know if it works or not.
$ForecastTime = Get-Date -Date $(Get-Date).AddDays(1) -Format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss;
Import-CSV './input.csv' | ForEach-Object {
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.darksky.net/forecast/$apiKey/$_.latitude,$_.longitude,$ForcastTime?exclude=currently,minutely,hourly,flags&units=us"
}
PS: If a CSV column name has spaces in it then you can read the column as $_.'Region Code'