> Anyone have any ideas on how to import (from a web site) a simple > text-based weather report for the current day into a Rev application > based on zip code?
I'd probably use "screen scraping" techniques; for example, my zip code is 54701, so I go to weather.com and enter my zip. That takes me to a page which is this URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54701?lswe=54701&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndec lared&from=searchbox_localwx I can then use "put url <url> into <variable>" and then I have all the HTML code for that page in a variable: put " http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54701?lswe=54701&"; & \ "lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared&from=searchbox_localwx" into tURL put url tURL into tHTML Then you can parse the HTML looking for the tags that surround the temp, wind speed, etc. Of course if Weather.com ever changes their format you'd have to change yours as well, but it's a good starting point. If this is for something commercial, better yet would be to subscribe to an XML feed that would be in a consistent format. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
