Weather forecast example using yr.no API

Requires the RestSharp library.

Grabs the XML output from yr.no REST API and converts it into simple objects

Sample C# API request. Just provide your own XML geographic links to the method. You can ignore the IsFilled boolean, it is for future purpose...

C# source code

string url = "http://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/Stockholm/J%c3%a4rva/forecast.xml";

        public string GetWeatherXml()
        {
            var client = new RestClient(url);
            var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
            return client.Execute(request).Content;
        }

        public WeatherData GetWeatherData()
        {
            WeatherData Data = new WeatherData() { WeatherItems = new List<WeatherItem>() };

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("");

            System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

            doc.LoadXml(GetWeatherXml());
            
            System.Xml.XmlNode sun = doc.SelectSingleNode("/weatherdata/sun");
            System.Xml.XmlNode location = doc.SelectSingleNode("/weatherdata/location");
            System.Xml.XmlNodeList nodelist = doc.SelectNodes("/weatherdata/forecast/tabular/time");

            Data.SunRise = sun.Attributes["rise"].Value;
            Data.SunSet = sun.Attributes["set"].Value;
            Data.IsFilled = true;
            
            Data.LocationName = location["name"].Value;
            Data.LocationType = location["type"].Value;
            Data.LocationCountry = location["country"].Value;

            Data.LocationLatitude = location["location"].Attributes["latitude"].Value;
            Data.LocationLongitude = location["location"].Attributes["longitude"].Value;
            
            for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
            {
                WeatherItem item = new WeatherItem();

                item.Period = nodelist[i].Attributes["period"].Value;
                item.TimeFrom = DateTime.Parse(nodelist[i].Attributes["from"].Value).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
                item.TimeTo =  DateTime.Parse(nodelist[i].Attributes["to"].Value).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
                item.SymbolNumber = nodelist[i]["symbol"].Attributes["number"].Value.PadLeft(2,'0');
                item.SymbolName = nodelist[i]["symbol"].Attributes["name"].Value;
                item.Temp = nodelist[i]["temperature"].Attributes["value"].Value + "C";
                item.PrecipitationValue = nodelist[i]["precipitation"].Attributes["value"].Value;
                item.WindSpeedMPS = nodelist[i]["windSpeed"].Attributes["mps"].Value;
                item.WindSpeedName = nodelist[i]["windSpeed"].Attributes["name"].Value;
                item.WindDirectionCode = nodelist[i]["windDirection"].Attributes["code"].Value;
                item.WindDirectionDeg = nodelist[i]["windDirection"].Attributes["deg"].Value;
                item.WindDirectionName = nodelist[i]["windDirection"].Attributes["name"].Value;

                item.IsFilled = true;

                Data.WeatherItems.Add(item);
            }

            return Data;
        }


    public class WeatherItem
    {
        public string TimeFrom { get; set; }
        public string TimeTo { get; set; }

        public string Period { get; set; }

        public string SymbolNumber { get; set; }
        public string SymbolName { get; set; }
        public string SymbolVar { get; set; }
        
        public string PrecipitationValue { get; set; }

        public string WindDirectionDeg { get; set; }
        public string WindDirectionCode { get; set; }
        public string WindDirectionName { get; set; }
        public string WindSpeedMPS { get; set; }
        public string WindSpeedName { get; set; }

        public string Temp { get; set; }
        public string Pressure { get; set; }

        public bool IsFilled { get; set; }

    }

    public class WeatherData
    {
        public string LocationName { get; set; }
        public string LocationType { get; set; }
        public string LocationCountry { get; set; }
        public string LocationLatitude { get; set; }
        public string LocationLongitude { get; set; }

        public string SunRise { get; set; }
        public string SunSet { get; set; }

        public List<WeatherItem> WeatherItems { get; set; }

        public bool IsFilled { get; set; }

        public WeatherData()
        {
            WeatherItems = new List<WeatherItem>();
        }
    }