Prerequisites to access the OpenWeatherMap API

OpenWeatherMap provides options to request the data using API calls. As a prerequisite, you need to create an account. Here is the summary of the steps; for additional information, reference https://openweathermap.org/.

To get weather data from OpenWeatherMap, you need to follow these steps:

1. Sign up: Go to the OpenWeatherMap website (https://openweathermap.org/) and sign up for an account. Once you have signed up and logged in, move on to the next step.
2. Understand the API documentation: OpenWeatherMap provides various APIs for accessing weather data, including current weather data, forecast weather data, historical weather data, and more. Review the API documentation to understand how to use the different endpoints and parameters to fetch the weather data you need. We will use the api.openweathermap.org API to collect the dataset. Based on the number of times we call the API in this chapter, it will stay within the free...