Re: xAP Weather 1.1 Released

[James]

It looks like the BBC have changed the webpage design for the weather,
so the scraper is having problems!

I will have a look at the new site and tweak Weather. This will always
be a problem with a website scraper, hence the suggestion to stay, if at
all possible, with the ICAO data.

I will also fix it so the error is properly displayed and even inserted
when the scraped errors out.

James

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:16, Stuart Booth wrote:
> James,
>
> Weather's chucking out empty xAP messages e.g.:
>
> xap-header
> {
> v=12
> hop=1
> uid=FF209800
> class=weather.report
> source=mi4.weather.2111
> }
> weather.report
> {
> }
>
> Is that normal?
>
> Can I control the update frequency at all? It hasn't pumped anything
> out for about 4 minutes. Not long I know... Heartbeats coming out
> fine.
>
> Ohhhhh, hang on, if I click the xAP logo I get an edit box appearing.
> Sorted.
>
> I tried EGLL in the INI file too, but just empty message bodies from
> that too.
>
> Ohhhhh (there's an echo here!), it's Station=id=2111 and Station=EGLL
> in the INI file. I see now. I have a weather report. Spotted it when I
> deleted the INI file and restarted xAP Weather. The prompt asked me
> for a ICAO or a BBCi ID.
>
> BTW, the error report message looked like this:
>
> weather.report
> {
> error=StationNotFound}
> }
>
> Extra curly on the end there. I can only get the empty body out of
> Station=id=2111 however.
>
> S