rbowman <bow...@montana.com> writes: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:37 +0100, Daniel wrote: > >> Lesser used protocols not known by many in the mainstream. Such as: >> >> gopher, gemini, finger, spartan, titan, etc. >> >> An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your >> city name as the user. This isn't mine, but it is inspiring. Example: >> >> finger mi...@graph.no >> >> For all options, go to the help finger: >> >> finger h...@graph.no > > Thanks. Interesting. I was surprised a Norwegian site would have data for > a small city in the US. I have a Python script that accesses the NOAA > (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) API and the data in the > Meteogram appears to match well. fwiw, all that does is > > observation_url = f"https://api.weather.gov/stations/K{grid_id}/ > observations/latest" > response = requests.get(observation_url).json()
I think he uses a weather service API to call the data, and I'm sure they all share data across other national weather services. That's just a guess. > > using the Python 'requests' package and then parsing out the JSON. > Implementing finger probably would be a straight socket connection. I > don't know how useful this is: > > https://pypi.org/project/pyfinger/ > > I assume gopher is fron the archie, veronica, and jughead days. It appears > straightforward. I use gopher all the time, and the lynx browser supports it directly. If you have lynx, you can visit this gopher interface to Wikipedia: gopher://gopherpedia.com If you like Reddit, there's this gopher://gopherddit.com Of course it's read only, but if you're wishing to leisurely read posts on reddit in a super fast gopher page, you can. Right now, I'm focused on providing wiktionary.org services on gopher as well as finger. These are longterm projects since I can only learn python and code on spare time, which I have little. /snip I will be posting my coding questions in here. Thanks guys. Daniel -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
