This program for Mac OS X gets the data from weather.com, I think: http://heat-meteo.sourceforge.net/
It's open source, so you could get the parsing code. .hc On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:59 AM, altern wrote: > hi > > anyone knows of an online worldwide forecast service? I am developing > some python scripts with Pyext external that retrieve different > type of > data from the net into PD. > > At the moment i have been using yahoo weather, this is quite handy > because they have RSS feed that can be easily manipulated from python > and returned into PD. > > Currently i have scripts that tell me the external IP of my > computer and > another one that uses the IP to retrieve geolocation data (lat, > long, > nearby city, country ), using this i think i should be able to ask > yahoo > for weather data of an specific city and country and from there access > the RSS. > > However I think there are some copyright issues with yahoo weather. I > read a notice in the HTML source of yahoo weather saying that this > data > is not to be used without permission > " ...You are prohibited from using or repurposing this data in any way > without express written consent from Yahoo! ..." > > I guess i could pretend i did not see the notice but maybe there is > some > worldwide forecast service that would allow me to use the data? > > thanks > > enrike > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list