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

[Grant Parnell <gripz@nospam.linuxfreak.com>]

A number of good suggestions so far but here's another one 

#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html
BLURB=`lynx -dump as__sydney.html | grep -A 15 CURRENTLY`
WIND=`echo "$BLURB" | grep Wind | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
echo $WIND

For me this produced:-
 From the Southeast at 12 mph

But you might have better luck parsing the output of pages at
http://www.bom.gov.au (Bereau of Meteorology) as they seem to reliably
use the <pre> tags for the good bits :-)

Of course the _elegant_ solution would be to find a site that spits it
out in XML. For the layman it's like HTML (HTML can be written as an
XML compliant document).

> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:17:13 +1000
> From: "Grahame M. Kelly" <grahame@nospam.wildpossum.com>
> Subject: [SLUG] Extracting Weather text out of a web page - Newbie Question
> 
> Yes, I'll admit to being a html/web newbie.
> 
> 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 ?

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