earthquakes.py

import json
# The Python standard library includes some functionality for communicating
# over the Internet.
# However, we will use a more powerful and simpler library called requests.
# This is external library that you may need to install first.
import requests


def get_data():
    # With requests, we can ask the web service for the data.
    # Can you understand the parameters we are passing here?
    response = requests.get(
        "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query.geojson",
        params={
            'starttime': "2000-01-01",
            "maxlatitude": "58.723",
            "minlatitude": "50.008",
            "maxlongitude": "1.67",
            "minlongitude": "-9.756",
            "minmagnitude": "1",
            "endtime": "2018-10-11",
            "orderby": "time-asc"}
    )

    # The response we get back is an object with several fields.
    # The actual contents we care about are in its text field:
    text = response.text
    # To understand the structure of this text, you may want to save it
    # to a file and open it in VS Code or a browser.
   

    # loading from text to json to be opened in python (.loads())
    response_data = json.loads(text)
    # printing data to check instead of saving to a file
    #print(json.dumps(response_data, indent = 2))
    # open new file that we want to create, 'w' meants to write into 
    with open('response.json', 'w') as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(response_data, indent=2))
    

    # We need to interpret the text to get values that we can work with.
    # What format is the text in? How can we load the values?
    return response_data
 

def count_earthquakes(data):
    """Get the total number of earthquakes in the response."""
    return len(data['features'])


def get_magnitude(earthquake):
    """Retrive the magnitude of an earthquake item."""
    return earthquake['properties']['mag']


def get_location(earthquake):
    """Retrieve the latitude and longitude of an earthquake item."""
    # There are three coordinates, but we don't care about the third (altitude)
    return [earthquake['geometry']['coordinates'][0], earthquake['geometry']['coordinates'][1]]


def get_maximum(data):
    """Get the magnitude and location of the strongest earthquake in the data."""
    max_magnitude = max([get_magnitude(earthquake) for earthquake in data['features']])
    location = [get_location(earthquake) for earthquake in data['features'] if get_magnitude(earthquake) == max_magnitude]
    return max_magnitude, location


# With all the above functions defined, we can now call them and get the result
data = get_data()
print(f"Loaded {count_earthquakes(data)}")
max_magnitude, max_location = get_maximum(data)
print(f"The strongest earthquake was at {max_location} with magnitude {max_magnitude}")

#datetime.fromtimestamp(1485714600).strftime("%Y")