Error loading location on openweathermap via API with Kivy

[Gigux]

The query should be, according to my update (which I used as a patch but might be simply wrong):

API_key = "XXX"
base_url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?"
search_template = base_url + "appid=" + API_key + "&q={}"

According to the manual, it should be:

search_template = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/find?q={}&type=like" 

By running your listing https://openweathermap.org/find?q=Vancouver, I get:

File "/home/gigiux/Documents/main.py", line 30, in found_location
    data = json.loads(data.decode()) if not isinstance(data, dict) else data

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Is this getting closer?