Re: [OT] Met office data feeds

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Replied off list - unless anyone else is interested?
Wayne.

Ho Yin Ng wrote:

>Wayne any chance you could send me this php file with some rough
>explanation of how it works?
>
>So that I don't have to start from scratch? If this is ok?
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>Thanks,
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>Ho yin
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>At 17:51 05/10/2004, you wrote:
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>>:)
>>I've got code in PHP if thats any better?
>>Wayne.
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>>Ho Yin Ng wrote:
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>>>Oh ok ..
>>>
>>>Humm I don't know how to do it .. so I will have to google and
find out how
>>>to do what you describe.
>>>
>>>So basically you use perl to weed out the HTML you do and don't
want?
>>>
>>>Will have to give it a try.
>>>
>>>Ho yin
>>>
>>>At 15:19 05/10/2004, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "Ho Yin Ng" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Simon the ones you have look good ..
>>>>>
>>>>>Though still a bit large for me. I take it you just
filtered it from the
>>>>>websites and you therefore cannot change the or
rearrange the content?
>>>>>
>>>>>I really just want icons and the temp.
>>>>>
>>>>>As for the rssweather ... it looks good .. but I can't
seem to get it to
>>>>>show me 3 days in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>But at least I have got a bit further!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Yip, just a couple of simple pattern matches (perl),
removing all content
>>>>before and after what I'm looking for. Doesn't produce
valid html, but I
>>>>really don't care as long as it works.
>>>>
>>>>You could parse the data out of the html, but that's risky,
although
>>>>
>>>>
>>the met
>>
>>
>>>>office page is very nicely laid out in html, and should be
easy to parse.
>>>>The BBC one (which uses met office data feeds) may also be
simple to parse
>>>>for the information you want
>>>>
>>>>Simon
>>>>
>>>>
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