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weather plugin by weirdal27 on 08-24-2004 at 03:12 AM
Is there a plugin like this or would it be possible for someone to make it?
basically, i want to type /xweather 90210
so it goes to weather.com or whatever and looks up the temperature, humidity and whatever and displays it in the contact window
would that be possible?
RE: weather plugin by the_angry_angel on 08-24-2004 at 09:51 AM
it could be done, but it would be heavily dependant on the design of weather.com. if they made any significant changes it would most likely break.
that is unless theres a static developer api for weather.com, which i doubt
RE: weather plugin by WDZ on 08-24-2004 at 09:57 AM
Well, there are many weather sites other than weather.com... 
This looks like it might be useful... weather XML feeds: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/
RE: weather plugin by the_angry_angel on 08-24-2004 at 10:04 AM
handy WDZ 
now if I wasnt working 99% of the time, and I was american, i might have made that plugin 
hmm, anyone happen to know of a UK XML weather feed (off the top of their head)?
RE: weather plugin by Cartox on 08-24-2004 at 10:13 AM
you can add BOT2K3 to your contactlist
and type !weather 90210
or other zones,city's
eg. !weather paris
BOT2K3
RE: weather plugin by WDZ on 08-24-2004 at 10:36 AM
quote:I was searching around some more (I'm bored), and it seems that NOAA also provides UK weather info, but not in XML format.
Originally posted by the_angry_angel
hmm, anyone happen to know of a UK XML weather feed (off the top of their head)?
Example: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/EGLC.TXT
That's data for a location in the UK.
Decoded: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/EGLC.TXT
The name of the txt file can be changed to get weather for other locations. The full list of codes is at http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.txt (the first 4 characters of each line).
I've found some PHP scripts that use this data source, so there might be some C++/VB examples out there as well...
RE: weather plugin by Yousef on 08-24-2004 at 11:55 AM
I might turn it into a c++ plugin sometime
RE: weather plugin by the_angry_angel on 08-24-2004 at 02:20 PM
thats v.handy WDZ, I think I might use that - ive been searching for an alternative, but there doesnt seem to be decent one.
I might turn it into a tutorial or something sometime...
RE: weather plugin by Yousef on 08-24-2004 at 02:57 PM
also a lot of weather.com examples @ pscode...
RE: weather plugin by J2000_ca on 08-24-2004 at 08:10 PM
Why not just use a quicktext?
For example:
/run http://www.weather.com/weather/local/90210?lswe=(...herLocalUndeclared
RE: weather plugin by weirdal27 on 08-24-2004 at 09:05 PM
quote:
Originally posted by J2000_ca
Why not just use a quicktext?
For example:
/run http://www.weather.com/weather/local/90210?lswe=(...herLocalUndeclared
I would prefer it as a plugin as i dont really want my browser opening all the time
Bot2k3 is a good option but if its offline i cant do it. and i was thinking somewhere along the lines of using it to show your contact or group of people your weather in the contact window