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A small abstraction layer for the openweathermap API
https://github.com/baslr/node-openweathermap

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node-openweathermap
===================

A small abstraction layer for the openweathermap API

### install

$ npm install openweathermap

### methods

# set defaults
defaults(cfg)

# return the weather right now
now(cfg, callback)

# get a 7 days every 3h forecast
forecast(cfg, callback)

# get up to 14 days daily forecast
# cfg
# cnt:int(number of days for forecast)
daily(cfg, callback)

# get history for a city
history(cfg, callback)

# find
# cnt, beginns from 0, cnt 0 returns 1 item, cnt 1 returns 2 items
find(cfg, callback)

### (defaults)

units: ('metric'|'imperial'|'internal')
lang: ('en'|'ru'|'it'|'sp'|'ua'|'de'|'pt'|'ro'|'pl'|'fi'|'nl'|'fr'|'bg'|'se'|'zh_tw'|zh_cn')
mode: 'json' // for now only json support
q: 'City Name e.g. London,UK or Berlin,Germany'
cnt: Number(forecast:number of days, find: 0..)
id: Number(city id)

# history
type: ('tick'|'hour'|'day')
start: Number(unix timestamp)
end: Number(unix timestamp)
cnt: Number(list count)

attribute \ function | defaults | now | daily | history | find | forecast
--------------------:|:--------:|:---:|:-----:|:-------:|:----:|:--------:
q | x | x | x | - | x | x
id | x | x | x | x | - | x
cnt | x | - | x | x | x | -
start | x | - | - | x | - | -
end | x | - | - | x | - | -
units | x | x | x | x | x | x

### opts

weather.ops({port:8080})

sets the port to 8080 for all following requests. The opts method is chainable.
Generally you can set all http.get [Node.js options](http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback).

### Examples

weather = require 'openweathermap'

# set defaults
weather.defaults {units:'metric', lang:'de', mode:'json'}

# id is Cologne, Germany
weather.now {id:2886242}, (err, json) ->
console.dir json

# 2 days forecast
weather.daily {id:2886242, cnt:2}, (err, json) ->
console.dir json

# history for 3 hours
weather.history {type:'hour', id:2886242, cnt:3}, (err, json) ->
console.dir json

# find 3 berlins
weather.find {q:'berlin', cnt:2}, (err, json) ->
console.dir json

# forecast for Okemos, MI
weather.forecast {id: 5004359}, (err, json) ->
console.dir json

more infos about openweathermap.org at

### changelog

#### 1.0.0
* added error handling: Use node.js style Error-First Callbacks #5 (many thanks to @sweetpi)
* release v1.0.0
* release npm v1.0.0

#### 0.2.1
* fixes issue #4 bug: Return invalid json

#### 0.2.0
* node-openweathermap is now browserifiable, #2 (many thanks to @MikkoH)
* set http options via opts() eg. port ...

#### 0.1.1
* fixed #1
* resonse now in flow mode
* use

#### 0.0.3
* added city history

#### 0.0.2
* added find

#### 0.0.1
* inital release