How do i get the weather?

[twister]

Even though the weather here in MN sucks, i'm wanting to put it on my admin page. I'm making something like My Yahoo! only without ads and really customized for me. But how do i get the 5 day forcast off some other site? The real source to those pages are dynamic and all's you see when you do a 'view source' is the output product. So that doesn't help.

Anyone know how to get it? I know watson pulls it out, and meterologist does too. How can I?

Twister

 

[slur]

The preferred way would be to find a "SOAP" utility that provides weather, parse the output and convert it into HTML using PHP or perl, whatever your favorite web scripting language is. Follow this thread for more information:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/annotate/message.php3?id=1004819

 

[chemistry_geek]

Try these:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/

http://www.weather.gov/

For some of them, you can enter your city and state OR Zip code. After you enter the pertinent data, bookmark the URL.

 

[twister]

I actually want it to apper on my site. I don't wanna visit anywhere else. Thanks though. I'm still trying to look into that "SOAP thing.

Twister

 

[chemistry_geek]

Might want to talk to the author of WeatherPop. It's on versiontracker. WeatherPop gets the weather for a location and displays it in the menu. Using the same algorythm to display it on a webpage shouldn't be that difficult.

What about Sherlock and using AppleScript, or a CGI script? Something has to exist out there for this purpose.

Hope this helps.

 

[Da_iMac_Daddy]

My school webpage does this I don't think it's too hard. I'll ask tomorrow.