# Querying rest api
**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769 "2020-05-13T08:05:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/1 "2020-05-13T08:05:45Z")
I’m trying to use open weather map to make a weather bot. I’m using the code from the demo and everything is fine except actions. I have slot location but i don’t know how to replace the q in the url with the slot. It looks like this:
```
loc = tracker.get_slot('location')
current = requests.get('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q&appid=cc24cc7c42f06680e1bec75abb70ca0c').json()
```
My question is how do i make the q value be the slot value without using Apixu?
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### Author:  [@MuraliChandran14](https://forum.rasa.com/u/MuraliChandran14)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/2 "2020-05-13T08:33:03Z")
Hi @Dnnsmoyo,
q will be the location
In your code you have used
> loc
to get location. you can use that to replace q.
-Murali
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/3 "2020-05-13T08:38:26Z")
How do i replace it in the url? Ive tried q=loc but its not working Can you show me an example?
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### Author:  [@MuraliChandran14](https://forum.rasa.com/u/MuraliChandran14)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/4 "2020-05-13T08:42:38Z")
> response = requests.get(“[http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=“+loc+”&appid=](http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=%22+loc+%22&appid=)”);
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/5 "2020-05-13T08:43:14Z")
Thanks let me try that
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/6 "2020-05-13T08:45:48Z")
Now getting this error `TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str`
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### Author:  [@MuraliChandran14](https://forum.rasa.com/u/MuraliChandran14)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/7 "2020-05-13T08:55:31Z")
Try `str()` in-built function
+str(loc)+
or go for this approach
> response = requests.get(“[http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={}&appid=](http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=%7B%7D&appid=)”.format(loc))
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/8 "2020-05-13T09:16:31Z")
Thanks
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### Author:  [@MuraliChandran14](https://forum.rasa.com/u/MuraliChandran14)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/9 "2020-05-13T09:56:56Z")
Okay Sir, I fixed your problem This is the Json format you got from [api.openweather.org](http://api.openweather.org). It key and value pairs does not matched your previous solution. In my understanding the Apixu.weather.api is different than [api.openweather.org](http://api.openweather.org)
This is the solution and working
Hope this helps!!
P.S Haha where is the post? 😃
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### Author:  [@Dnnsmoyo](https://forum.rasa.com/u/Dnnsmoyo)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/querying-rest-api/28769/10 "2020-05-13T10:26:31Z")
Here it is: Tried to solve it myself lol
```
from rasa_sdk import Action
from rasa_sdk.events import SlotSet
import requests
class ActionWeather(Action):
def name(self):
return 'action_weather'
def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain):
api_key = 'cc24cc7c42f06680e1bec75abb70ca0c' #your apixu key
loc = tracker.get_slot('location')
current = requests.get('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q={}&appid=cc24cc7c42f06680e1bec75abb70ca0c'.format(loc)).json()
country = current['location']['country']
city = current['location']['name']
condition = current['current']['condition']['text']
temperature_c = current['current']['temp_c']
humidity = current['current']['humidity']
wind_mph = current['current']['wind_mph']
response = """It is currently {} in {} at the moment. The temperature is {} degrees, the humidity is {}% and the wind speed is {} mph.""".format(condition, city, temperature_c, humidity, wind_mph)
dispatcher.utter_message(response)
return [SlotSet('location',loc)]
```
Thanks let me implement your solution