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O.P. Cool  weather plugin
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?
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08-24-2004 03:12 AM
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RE: weather plugin
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
08-24-2004 09:51 AM
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RE: weather plugin
Well, there are many weather sites other than weather.com... :p

This looks like it might be useful... weather XML feeds: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/
08-24-2004 09:57 AM
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RE: weather plugin
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)?
08-24-2004 10:04 AM
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RE: weather plugin
you can add BOT2K3 to your contactlist
and type !weather 90210
or other zones,city's
eg. !weather paris
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08-24-2004 10:13 AM
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RE: weather plugin
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hmm, anyone happen to know of a UK XML weather feed (off the top of their head)?
I was searching around some more (I'm bored), and it seems that NOAA also provides UK weather info, but not in XML format.

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...
08-24-2004 10:36 AM
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RE: weather plugin
I might turn it into a c++ plugin sometime :)
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08-24-2004 11:55 AM
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RE: weather plugin
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...
08-24-2004 02:20 PM
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RE: weather plugin
also a lot of weather.com examples @ pscode...
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08-24-2004 02:57 PM
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RE: weather plugin
Why not just use a quicktext?
For example:
/run http://www.weather.com/weather/local/90210?lswe=(...herLocalUndeclared
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08-24-2004 08:10 PM
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