On 31/08/12 14:19, Carson Chittom wrote:
Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> writes:
It might be near time to investigate wunderground.com and loose google for
weather before igoogle disappears. Other weather sites capable of text
output may also be available, I haven't investigated that yet.
For those in the US, the National Weather Service has forecasts
available in XML, which could be parsed, requestable via latitude and
longitude. I haven't done anything with that other than noting its
existence. URL seems to be
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=xx.xxxx&lon=yy.yyyy&FcastType=dwml
There is also Yahoo, which uses The Weather Channel. Their official
interface is documented at http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ This
returns a three day forecast. However, there is an undocumented
interface that returns a five day forecast. See
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss/UKXX0718_c.xml for an example
forecast.
I have a python script that uses the undocumented interface, which I'll
put on Github when I have tidied it up a bit. It doesn't look too hard
to adapt the current googleweather.el script to use Yahoo.
Ian.
