colourful cloud (彩云）api

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2018-04-30 05:58

get your API key from https://dashboard.caiyunapp.com/user/login/

First 30K API call is free

Python function below for your refernece

```
def get_hourly_forcast_cc(api_key, lon, lat):  url_target = "https://api.caiyunapp.com/v2/"+api_key+"/"+str(lon)+","+str(lat)+"/forecast.json" 
    response_body = urllib2.urlopen(url_target).read()
    result = response_body.decode('utf-8')
    raw = json.loads(result)
    dic_hourly = raw['result']['hourly']

ls_weather_hourly = list()
    ls_item = [u'skycon',
                 u'cloudrate',
                 u'precipitation',
                 u'humidity',
                 u'pm25',
                 u'wind',
                 u'aqi',
                 u'pres',
                 u'temperature']

ls_col = [u'skycon',
                 u'cloudrate',
                 u'precipitation',
                 u'humidity',
                 u'pm25',
                 u'direction',
                 u'speed',
                 u'aqi',
                 u'pres',
                 u'temperature']

for k in ls_item:
        df_tmp = pd.DataFrame(dic_hourly[k])
        ls_weather_hourly.append(df_tmp)

df_weather_hourly = pd.concat(ls_weather_hourly, axis=1)
    datetime = df_weather_hourly.iloc[:,0]
    df_weather_hourly.drop('datetime', axis = 1,inplace=True)
    df_weather_hourly.columns = ls_col
    df_weather_hourly['datetime'] = datetime
    
    return df_weather_hourly
```

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