Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
On 04/09/12 08:54, Ian Barton wrote: On 31/08/12 14:19, Carson Chittom wrote: Jude DaShiell 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.&lon=yy.&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. I have pushed my python script to https://github.com/geekinthesticks/python-yahoo-weather This shows how to retrieve the five day forecast from Yahoo, with an example XML page of the results returned by Yahoo. As an added benefit Yahoo also returns the lat, long, sunrise and sunset data. For people in the UK, there is a complete list of all location codes for towns and cities. I have also included a copy of Julien Danjou's original library for Google in the repo. As a first step I renamed all occurrences of Google to Yahoo. Other than that it doesn't do anything useful yet. Since my elisp skills are very limited, if anyone else wants to hack on this too, I would be more than happy to merge your changes. Ian.
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
On 31/08/12 14:19, Carson Chittom wrote: Jude DaShiell 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.&lon=yy.&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.
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Charles Philip Chan writes: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > Hi Jude: > >> 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. > Followup: For world-wide sites, there is http://api.yr.no/weatherapi/documentation This does not specify limits to geographic coverage and detail, but the models listed as source include the ECMWF EC.GEO.0.25 which is global. Forecasts for Norway and surrounding areas use a more accurate local model. R Horn rjh...@alum.mit.edu
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Charles Philip Chan writes: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > Hi Jude: > >> 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. > wunderground.com wants a developer ID and in some situations wants a paid account. For US locations, take a look at the NOAA/NWS services. http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php is a similar service, freely available to the public. Parseing the NDFD response will take a while to understand, but it's a simple schema and will be a tiny computational burden. That page has links to all the relevant documents. I don't have time to go through all that, but a quick look indicates that it has all the information that Google was providing. There will just be more work involved in organizing it into a tidy little line of text. R Horn rjh...@alum.mit.edu
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
I think for individuals wunderground.com is free, but for organizations it's a paid arrangement. On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Nick Dokos wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Yup, I believe google gets its weather data from wunderground.com. But > I don't know if they make their data available for free. Presumably google > pays them some money for the use. > > Nick > > > --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Jude DaShiell 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.&lon=yy.&FcastType=dwml
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Jude DaShiell writes: Hi Jude: > 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. I agree. Charles -- Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) pgpBlyaxmjS4d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Jude DaShiell wrote: > 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. > Yup, I believe google gets its weather data from wunderground.com. But I don't know if they make their data available for free. Presumably google pays them some money for the use. Nick
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
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. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > BTW, if you visit > > http://www.google.com/ig > > it also says > > , > | iGoogle will not be available after November 1, 2013. Learn more > ` > > So google-weather's days are numbered (420 days or so) even if the > first problem gets resolved. OK, thanks for the info. :-( Cheers. Charles -- How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done" in a GUI? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.) pgpapbDNfjamV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > When I go to > >http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Boston&hl=en-GB > > Google slaps me and says: > > , > | Google > | Sorry... > | We're sorry... > | > | ... but your computer or network may be sending automated > | queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right > | now. > | See Google Help for more information. > | > ` You are right, I just looked at the cached files and that is what I see. :-( Charles -- "Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you?" (By Patrick Volkerding) pgpQPv2SKbAUm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Nick Dokos wrote: > Charles Philip Chan wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > After updating to the latest git version of Org-mode, google weather > > entries are not showing up in the Agenda buffer any more. Does any one > > else have the same problem? > > > > Yup - I got an error on startup and turned it off. When I turned it back > on and tried again (possibly after another org update), I got no error > but no results either. Haven't investigated further. > When I go to http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Boston&hl=en-GB Google slaps me and says: , | Google | Sorry... | We're sorry... | | ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. | See Google Help for more information. | ` BTW, if you visit http://www.google.com/ig it also says , | iGoogle will not be available after November 1, 2013. Learn more ` So google-weather's days are numbered (420 days or so) even if the first problem gets resolved. Nick
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Nick Dokos writes: Hi Nick: > Yup - I got an error on startup and turned it off. When I turned it > back on and tried again (possibly after another org update), I got no > error but no results either. Haven't investigated further. Thanks for the confirmation. I know that the weather info is download and cached judging by the timestamps of the files. They are just not showing in the Agenda buffer. Cheers, Charles -- "Nature abhors a Vacuum" -- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) pgpz0DOfy73Jy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Charles Philip Chan wrote: > Hello all: > > After updating to the latest git version of Org-mode, google weather > entries are not showing up in the Agenda buffer any more. Does any one > else have the same problem? > Yup - I got an error on startup and turned it off. When I turned it back on and tried again (possibly after another org update), I got no error but no results either. Haven't investigated further. Nick
[O] Google-weather.el and the Latest Git Version of Org-mode
Hello all: After updating to the latest git version of Org-mode, google weather entries are not showing up in the Agenda buffer any more. Does any one else have the same problem? Thanks. Charles -- "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca) pgpiv2D0bHlwL.pgp Description: PGP signature
