Re: Re: Slightly OT: Scraping tide info for house intranet page

[ant <blowback@xxxxxxxxx>]

here's a bit of perl that will do the job:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use LWP::Simple;

$url = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/tides.shtml?date=20080527&loc=0027";;
$start_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats open -->";
$end_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats close -->";

my $content = get $url;

if(defined($content)) {
print "<table>\n$1\n</table>\n" if($content =~
/$start_delim(.*?)$end_delim/s);
}

Or some Ruby to do the same thing:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'

url = URI.parse("http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/tides/tides.shtml?date=20080527&loc=0027";)
start_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats open -->"
end_delim = "<!-- tide chart stats close -->"

Net::HTTP.get(url).scan(/#{start_delim}(.*?)#{end_delim}/m) { x
print "<table>\n#{x}</table>\n" }



cheers

ant



On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If your ok with a bit of coding - you could always hack it out in real
> time :)
>
> Wayne.
>
> James - SJ Computers wrote:
>> You could use an iframe (Web Page inside another web page)
>>
>> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_iframe.asp
>>
>> James
>>
>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, noel_pilot <HA@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   awesome good find, thanks, will prob use that altho
interested to know
>>> how I could have scraped the other info if anyone knows?!?!
>>>
>>> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>,
"brougham Baker"
>>> <bro-yahoo@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: "noel_pilot" <HA@...>
>>>>
>>>>> Someone on here can hopefully help me, starting to
think about a home
>>>>> intranet page with all useful stuff on there and one
think I like to
>>>>> know is tides (i kitesurf as often as possible).
>>>>>
>>>>> Easiest source of information for this purpose I think
is the bbc,
>>>>>
>>>> There are other sources-
>>>>
>>> http://www.googleminiapps.com/tools/tides-gadget/
>>>
>>>> for e.g. That looks to have plain text output.
>>>>
>>>> My work mates also use the one on iGoogle homepage too.
>>>>
>>>> Bro
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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