Can you write me a program please, that graps the current precipitation value from the internet every 30 mins and writes that to a csv file on my computer.
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To write a program that fetches the current precipitation value from the internet and writes it to a CSV file, you can follow these steps:

1. Install the requests and BeautifulSoup modules using pip, if you haven't already. You can do this by running the following commands in your terminal:
```python
pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4
```
2. Import the necessary modules in your Python script:
```python
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
import time
```
3. Create a function that fetches the current precipitation value from a website. You can use the requests module to make an HTTP request to the website, and then use BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML response and extract the relevant information. Here's an example function that fetches the precipitation value from weather.com:
```python
def get_precipitation():
    url = 'https://weather.com/en-IN/weather/today/l/28.61,77.22?par=google&temp=c'
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
    value = soup.select('.CurrentConditions--precipValue--2aJSf')[0].get_text()
    return value.strip()
```
4. Create a loop that calls this function every 30 minutes and writes the precipitation value to a CSV file. You can use the csv module to create and write to a CSV file. Here's an example loop:
```python
while True:
    value = get_precipitation()
    with open('precipitation.csv', mode='a') as file:
        writer = csv.writer(file)
        writer.writerow([time.time(), value])
    time.sleep(1800)  # wait 30 minutes
```

This loop calls the get_precipitation() function to fetch the current precipitation value, and then opens a CSV file ('precipitation.csv') and appends a row to it containing the current timestamp (as a Unix timestamp) and the precipitation value. It then waits for 30 minutes before repeating the process.

Note that the above code is just an example and may need to be modified based on your specific requirements and the website from which you want to fetch the precipitation data. Additionally, you may want to add error handling and other features to make the program more robust.
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