Re: Weather
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47437
interpreted = N
texte = on 2/4/03 4:02 PM, Jeff Logan at jefftalk@insideout.com so noted...> Ugly looking stuff from the National Weather Service. We used to > pull the weather right from here: > > http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USWA0346_f.html > > And it looked great in our web sites. But take a look at the source > of the page above now and you will see Yahoo's message and then if > you look further down on the page you will see how they are making it > hard to tcpconnect and get the weather. > > Any other good looking sites to grab weather from?Yes, the layout of the NOAA's page is fugly. I didn't know you were grabbing code wholesale from Yahoo and dropping it into another site.Since any other weather site is going to have the same repurposing limitation as Yahoo (source code disclaimer or no), you've got a few options.1) Keep using Yahoo.2) Parse the NOAA's page to get the necessary info and create a new page based upon it.3) Get data free from a third party that formats the NOAA info
4) Wait for NOAA to update their systems to make the data acquisition easier (which it sounds like they're in the process of doing). Myself, I'd probably do #1 until #4 comes to pass.> and then if you look further down on the page you will see how they are making > it hard to tcpconnect and get the weather.Are they changing the text in the comments that divide the sections on a random basis? As it stands now, their layout makes it easy to pick and choose just the sections you want, all nice and formatted. There's odd tags like and in there, but nothing that gets in the way of [middle]. [TCPConnect host=weather.yahoo.com] [text]yahooSrc=[TCPSend]GET /forecast/USWA0346_f.html HTTP/1.0[UnURL]%0D%0A%0D%0A[/UnURL][/TCPSend][/text] [/TCPConnect][Middle StartAfter=&EndBefore=][yahooSrc][/middle]
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[Middle StartAfter=&EndBefore=][yahooSrc][/middle] Rob Marquardt Designer/Resident Wirehead Toast Design800 Washington Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55401 612.330.9863 v 612.321.9424 f www.toastdesign.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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on 2/4/03 4:02 PM, Jeff Logan at jefftalk@insideout.com so noted...> Ugly looking stuff from the National Weather Service. We used to > pull the weather right from here: > > http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USWA0346_f.html > > And it looked great in our web sites. But take a look at the source > of the page above now and you will see Yahoo's message and then if > you look further down on the page you will see how they are making it > hard to tcpconnect and get the weather. > > Any other good looking sites to grab weather from?Yes, the layout of the NOAA's page is fugly. I didn't know you were grabbing code wholesale from Yahoo and dropping it into another site.Since any other weather site is going to have the same repurposing limitation as Yahoo (source code disclaimer or no), you've got a few options.1) Keep using Yahoo.2) Parse the NOAA's page to get the necessary info and create a new page based upon it.3) Get data free from a third party that formats the NOAA info 4) Wait for NOAA to update their systems to make the data acquisition easier (which it sounds like they're in the process of doing). Myself, I'd probably do #1 until #4 comes to pass.> and then if you look further down on the page you will see how they are making > it hard to tcpconnect and get the weather.Are they changing the text in the comments that divide the sections on a random basis? As it stands now, their layout makes it easy to pick and choose just the sections you want, all nice and formatted. There's odd tags like and in there, but nothing that gets in the way of [middle]. [TCPConnect host=weather.yahoo.com] [text]yahooSrc=[tcpsend]GET /forecast/USWA0346_f.html HTTP/1.0[unurl]%0D%0A%0D%0A[/UnURL][/TCPSend][/text] [/TCPConnect][Middle StartAfter=&EndBefore=][yahooSrc][/middle]
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[Middle StartAfter=&EndBefore=][yahooSrc][/middle] Rob Marquardt Designer/Resident Wirehead Toast Design800 Washington Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55401 612.330.9863 v 612.321.9424 f www.toastdesign.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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