Re: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question

[Rick Welykochy <rick@nospam.praxis.com.au>]

"Grahame M. Kelly" wrote:

> So, for a thick head on this side of the email, how does one extrace the
> temperature, due point, humidity textural information etc. from a page like
> 
> http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html
> 
> Does anyone have a simpler more elegant solution ?

Simpler more elegant than which solution? Human eyes?

Here is one suggestion (requires perl and curl/wget)

1. grab the page with curl or wget (freely available on the web)
2. pipe the page into a perl script that uses  HTML::TokeParser
   to extract the tags on the page, searches for triggers like
   "temp:" and "wind:"

Given the quality of the subsmissions to the ad hoc "elegant script"
competition we had a month ago, I'm sure there are Sluggers out there
who can replace step 2. above with something really clever ;)

Cheers
Rick W

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