Read web content into a dataframe without writing to a file - pandas

Question

I am trying to read data from the following link to a data frame without saving locally (this is important). I figured out a way (below), but is there an efficient way to do this?
from urllib.request import urlopen
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter
from datetime import datetime
uri = 'https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/request/asos.py?station=AXA&data=all&year1=2022&month1=12&day1=1&year2=2022&month2=12&day2=1&tz=Etc%2FUTC&format=onlycomma&latlon=no&elev=no&missing=M&trace=T&direct=no&report_type=3&report_type=4'
data = urlopen(uri, timeout=300).read().decode("utf-8")
dateparse = lambda x: datetime.strptime(x.strip(), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
str1 = data.split('\n')
dfList = []
for ii in range(1,len(str1)):
if len(str1[ii])>0:
df1 = pd.read_csv(StringIO(str1[ii]), parse_dates=[1], date_parser=dateparse, header=None) #Read each string into a dataframe
if not df1.empty:
df2 = df1.iloc[:,0:3] #Get the first five columns
if df2.iloc[0,-1] != 'M': #Don't append the ones with missing data
dfList.append(df2)
df = pd.concat(dfList, axis=0, ignore_index=True)
df.columns = ['Station','Date','Temp']
ax1 = df.plot(x=1,y=2)
ax1.get_figure().autofmt_xdate()

Answer 1

Using requests, pandas and io:
from io import StringIO
import pandas as pd
import requests
url = (
"https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/request/asos.py?"
"station=AXA&data=all&year1=2022&month1=12&day1=1&year2=2022&"
"month2=12&day2=1&tz=Etc%2FUTC&format=onlycomma&latlon=no&"
"elev=no&missing=M&trace=T&direct=no&report_type=3&report_type=4"
)
with requests.Session() as request:
response = request.get(url, timeout=30)
if response.status_code != 200:
print(response.raise_for_status())
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(response.text), sep=",")
print(df)