🌦 Weather Crawler (TimeAndDate)

Overview

Weather Crawler takes a location (city name) and provides extended 14 days weather forecast data from timeanddate.com for given locations. It extracts daily weather details such as temperature, conditions, wind, humidity, precipitation, UV index, and also enriches the data with latitude and longitude using the Open-Meteo Geocoding API.

Where you can use it?

• Weather dashboards
• Climate research datasets
• Travel & tourism apps
• Location-aware forecasting systems

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Input Methods

The actor supports multiple ways to provide weather URLs. For example:

Single URL

Users can manually add one or more TimeAndDate extended forecast URLs in the Start URLs field.

Example:

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/austin/ext

This method is suitable for scraping a small number of locations.

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Text File Upload (Bulk URLs)

For scraping multiple cities at once, users can upload a text file containing weather URLs.

• Each URL must be on a new line
• Only TimeAndDate /ext weather URLs are supported

Example text file (urls.txt):

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/germany/frankfurt/ext
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/ext
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/new-york/ext

This method is ideal for:

• Bulk data collection
• Weather analysis across multiple cities
• Automation workflows

Example Output

Here's a sample output. As you can see, it contains all the useful attributes (explained below).

City	Country	Day	Feels Like	Humidity	Latitude	Longitude	Precipitation Amount	Precipitation Chance	Temperature	UV Index	Weather	Wind
berlin	germany	Sat Jan 3	26 °F	93%	52.52437	13.41053	4.26"	72%	34 / 25 °F	0 (Low)	Moderate snow. Overcast.	8 mph
berlin	germany	Sun Jan 4	25 °F	90%	52.52437	13.41053	0.83"	51%	34 / 23 °F	0 (Low)	Light snow. Mostly cloudy.	9 mph

In JSON format, it would be:

{
  "city": "berlin",
  "country": "germany",
  "latitude": 52.52437,
  "longitude": 13.41053,
  "day": "Sat Jan 3",
  "temperature": "34 / 25 °F",
  "weather": "Moderate snow. Overcast.",
  "feels_like": "26 °F",
  "wind": "8 mph",
  "humidity": "93%",
  "precipitation_chance": "72%",
  "precipitation_amount": "4.26\"",
  "uv_index": "0 (Low)"
}

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Data Fields Explained

Most of the attributes are optional. For reference, here is the detailed field description.

Field	Description
city	City name
country	Country name
latitude	Latitude of City
longitude	Longitude of City
day	Forecast day
temperature	Max / Min temperature
weather	Weather condition summary
feels_like	Feels-like temperature
wind	Wind speed
humidity	Humidity percentage
precipitation_chance	Probability of precipitation
precipitation_amount	Precipitation volume
uv_index	UV index & risk level

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Notes & Limitations

The actor fetches weather information only for the upcoming 14 days from the date of scraping.

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Notes & Limitations

The actor fetches weather information only for the upcoming 14 days from the date of scraping.

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