> Sure, but if you're looking for a specific bit of text to find start
> positions, etc, and they change the text, your site starts
> throwing error
> messages.
Yeah, I was just saying it for a bit of fun...not very helpful really...
Like Aidan said though, the Met Office is probably your best bet, they have
a range of products ranging from free to..., well paid for.... (they have a
ticketing system, so each grab of data costs so many tickets etc).
You can get a list of their products and pricing at:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/metweb/prodinfo.html
Whilst an example of the weather update is at
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/metweb/examples/WxUpdate.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 February 2001 14:13
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: weather feeds
>
>
> > Yeah, CFHTTP grab the BBC weather page and do some RegEx on it...
>
> Sure, but if you're looking for a specific bit of text to find start
> positions, etc, and they change the text, your site starts
> throwing error
> messages.
>
> I've seen a site drag an image from the Met Office
> http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
> and display it on their site something like this...
>
> On the home page, click on the weather map. Click on whichever day and
> region you want to display on your site. Then find the path
> to that image
> and put the full path on your site, comme ca:
>
> <img src="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/images/Wday1.gif" alt="Day 2"
> border="1">
>
> Gives you an image for your area for today, but you're a
> bandwidth thief!
>
> It's one way... a true feed would be better.
>
>
> --
> Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Netshopper UK Ltd
> Advanced Web Solutions & Services
>
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> Telephone +44 (01744) 648650
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