On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Che M<pine...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in gathering simple weather data using Beautiful Soup, but > am having trouble understanding what I'm doing. I have searched the > archives and so far haven't found enough to get me moving forward. > > Basically I am trying to start off this example: > > Grabbing Weather Underground Data with BeautifulSoup > http://flowingdata.com/2007/07/09/grabbing-weather-underground-data-with-beautifulsoup/ > > But I get to the exact same problem that this other person got to in this > post: > http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/13eb3dbf713b8a4a > > Unfortunately, that post never gives enough help for me to understand how to > solve that person's or my problem. > > What I want to understand is how to find the bits of data you want--in this > case, say, today's average temperature and whether it was clear or > cloudy--within a web page, and then indicate that to Beautiful Soup.
One thing that might help is to use the Lite page, if you are not already. It has much less formatting and extraneous information to wade through. You might also look for a site that has weather data formatted for computer. For example the NOAA has forcast data available as plain text: http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=BOX&product=CCF&format=txt&version=1&glossary=0 Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
