Hi Gareth. I'm seeing the same behavior and have been for over a week now. The problem seems to be with WeatherUnderground itself (not surprising!)
Sean On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 5:23:29 PM UTC-7, Gareth Hunt wrote: > > Greetings, > > [Still a newbie user.] > > I live in rural USA where a landline DSL will probably be available some > time after Hell freezes over. So I have to rely on a satellite link. Not > surprisingly, this fails when there are adverse atmospheric conditions. > There were thunderstorms for several hours on June 7. So wunderfixer to > the rescue! However, it failed. Here is the code snippet with my added > print statement in class Wunderstation. > > _url = " > http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=%s&"\ > "month=%d&day=%d&year=%d&format=1" % (self.station, > dayRequested_tt[1], dayRequested_tt[2], dayRequested_tt[0]) > print _url # My addition > > try : > # Hit the weather underground site: > _wudata = urllib2.urlopen(_url) > except urllib2.URLError as e : > print >>sys.stderr, "Unable to open Weather Underground > station " + self.station, " or ", e > > This gave: > > bin$ ./my.wunderfixer > Using configuration file /home/weewx/weewx.conf. > Using database binding 'wx_binding', which is bound to database > 'archive_sqlite' > > http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KVASCOTT14&month=6&day=7&year=2019&format=1 > Unable to open Weather Underground station KVASCOTT14 or HTTP Error 403: > Forbidden > Could not get Weather Underground data. Exiting. > > However, when I copied and pasted the printed http address into my > browser, everything was fine. I could see all of the reported records with > the expected data gaps. I did not get HTTP Error 403 (i.e., e). > > So I have some (hopefully trivial) permission error with my access to > Wunderground. Can somebody suggest what it is and how I get it fixed? > > Thanks, > Gareth. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/633607fb-bbf6-4742-83e4-b235f1d2056a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
