prayer time

🕌 Python script to get prayer times for your city from Muslimsalat.com. Includes error handling and input validation.

prayer-time.py

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+import requests
+import json
+
+def get_prayer_times(location):
+
+    base_url = "http://muslimsalat.com/"
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(f"{base_url}{location}.json")
+        response.raise_for_status()  # Raise exception for bad responses (4xx, 5xx)
+        data = response.json()
+
+        # Error handling for missing location data
+        if not data.get('items'):
+            raise ValueError(f"No prayer data found for {location}.")
+
+        prayer_info = data['items'][0]
+        date = prayer_info['date_for']
+
+        print(f"\nPrayer Times for {location} | {date} |")
+        print("-" * 40)
+        print(f"Fajr:      {prayer_info['fajr']}")
+        print(f"Sunrise:   {prayer_info['shurooq']}")
+        print(f"Dhuhr:     {prayer_info['dhuhr']}")
+        print(f"Asr:       {prayer_info['asr']}")
+        print(f"Maghrib:   {prayer_info['maghrib']}")
+        print(f"Isha:      {prayer_info['isha']}")
+        print("-" * 40)
+
+    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+        print(f"Error fetching data: {e}")
+    except ValueError as e:
+        print(e)
+    except KeyError as e:
+        print(f"Missing data in response: {e}")
+
+while True:
+    location = input("Enter city name (or 'quit' to exit): ")
+    if location.lower() == 'quit':
+        break
+
+    if not location.isalpha():
+        print("Invalid input. Please enter letters only.")
+        continue
+
+    get_prayer_times(location)