import sys import os import httplib import datetime from time import gmtime, strftime URL = "/public/data/val/wxobs/all" URL += "/json" URL += "/3772" URL += "?res=hourly&" URL += "time="+'2016-08-24T18Z' URL += "&key=74f7ac18-636f-412f-aba3-83aec4452340" datapoint = httplib.HTTPConnection("datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk") datapoint.request("GET", URL) print datapoint.getresponse().read()