ESP8266 and Arduino Uno - Http Get

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Hi,

I'm using an arduino uno and an ESP8266 to connecto to internet. All I need to do is to the some weather information from the web (I'm using this api Current weather data - OpenWeatherMap) but I could not find a clear example on how to make a simple HTTP Get using arduino uno and ESP8266.
Is that any library that does not required me to know AT commands?
Thanks

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You could lose the Uno and program the ESP standalone with the Arduino IDE. Get the core here Arduino core for IDE. There are client examples with the libraries.

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Thanks but I need the Arduino UNO to use the module ESP8266 cos I need other pins/devices on the Arduino

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What other pins, devices? Which ESP module do you have? I have been using ESP8266-12 modules. They can do I2C and SPI so expansion is easily possible. For instance, I need 2 channels of 5 volt analog to digital so I connect a Tiny 85 via I2C (with level shifters) and use the Tiny ADC. I realized early on in my ESP experiments that the using the AT commands from an Uno so severely limited what the ESP can do so I directly program the ESP and deal with the lack of pins with expansion chips for what I need.

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To use ESP with Uno maybe somefhing like this: Arduino_ESP8266_HTTP_Client