The Conky folks are a good place to try for these kind of services. http://conkyhardcore.com/
While the application itself is more for system monitoring, they are a resourceful bunch that tap into a number of text information sources and display that text on the root window of your desktop. I've seen them display weather/forecast, Google Calender, rss feeds, etc... On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Reading documentation for GNU gawkinet, I found interesting examples > of publicly available data that can be retrieved in simple text format, > one with stock market numbers and other with protein databases. > > (If you're interested, check for STOXPRED and PROTBASE at this > documentation link.) > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/Some-Applications-and-Techniques.html > > I wonder if there are other services providing information in a format > that's easy for script processing. Maybe: weather information, econometric > data, GIS data etc. Do you know of any? > > Thanks for your toughts. Best, > > Maurício > > > >
