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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Geo Weather Challenge Post 302394520 by o0110o on Thursday 11th of February 2010 05:12:59 PM

02-11-2010

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Geo Weather Challenge

Hi everybody, I'm new to these forums and this is my first post. A couple days ago I was trying to find a simple script that would return an individual's local weather conditions using I.P. based geolocation. After many failed search attempts, I began my quest to create this for myself. I have to admit, it was a bit of a challenge for me as I'm very new to doing "cool" things on the command line. However, though the process of trial and error I have prevailed. Here is what I came up with:

Code:

xmlstarlet fo http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$(curl -s "http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)" | sed -e '1d' -e '3d' -e 's|C.*:||' -e's/ /%20/g' -e "s/'/%27/g" -e "s/-/%2d/g" -e 's/...\(.*\)/\1/') | sed -e 's|<f.*_i.*>|Locale|' -e 's|<ci.*=|Origin |' -e 's|<c.*_d.*=|Date+Time |' -e 's|<c.*_c.*>|Today|' -e 's|<co.*=|Conditions |' -e 's|<f.*_c.*>|Forecast|' -e 's|<t.*_f.*=|Temperature (�F) |' -e 's|<t.*_c.*=|Temperature (�C) |' -e 's|"H.*: |Humidity "|' -e 's|"W.*: |Wind "|' -e 's|<day.*=|For |' -e 's|<l.*=|Low (�F) |' -e 's|<hi.*=|High (�F) |' -e 's|<.*=||' -e 's|/>||' -e 's|<.*>||' -e 's|</.*>||' -e "s/'/'/g" -e '1,3d;6,9d;11d;18d;25d;28d;32d;35d;39d;42d;46d;48,49d'

This script will return your current local weather conditions as well as a four day forecast. As you can see, the script utilizes CURL, SED and XMLStarlet. As of right now, this is the best I could do.

Can you do better? Let's see how small and simple we can get this script, because it has the potential to develop into something useful for many people. If you find this challenge too simple for your master skills than perhaps you might like to take this script to the next level and add some features. Whatever the case may be, I look forward to your input.

Thanks,
Jared

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weather::com::uvindex

Weather::Com::UVIndex(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				Weather::Com::UVIndex(3pm)

NAME

       Weather::Com::UVIndex - class containing the uv index data

SYNOPSIS

	 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
	 use Weather::Com::Finder;

	 # you have to fill in your ids from weather.com here
	 my $PartnerId	= 'somepartnerid';
	 my $LicenseKey = 'mylicense';

	 my %weatherargs = (
	       'partner_id' => $PartnerId,
	       'license'    => $LicenseKey,
	       'language'   => 'de',
	 );

	 my $weather_finder = Weather::Com::Finder->new(%weatherargs);

	 my @locations = $weather_finder->find('Heidelberg');

	 my $currconditions = $locations[0]->current_conditions();

	 print "The current uv index is ", $currconditions->uv_index()->index(), "
";
	 print "This is relatively ", $currconditions->uv_index()->description(), "
";

DESCRIPTION

       Via Weather::Com::UVIndex one can access the uv index and its description (whether it's high or low). An uv index is usually an object
       belonging to current conditions or to a forecast (not implemented yet).

       This class will not be updated automatically with each call to one of its methods. You need to call the "uv_index()" method of the parent
       object again to update your object.

CONSTRUCTOR

       You usually would not construct an object of this class yourself.  This is implicitely done when you call the uv_index() method of one cur-
       rent conditions or forecast object.

METHODS

       index()

       Returns the uv index (number).

       description([$language])

       Returns the description whether this index is high or low.

       This description is translated if you specified the language option as argument while instantiating your Weather::Com::Finder.

       This attribute is dynamic language enabled.

AUTHOR

       Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2004-2007 by Thomas Schnuecker

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The data provided by weather.com and made accessible by this OO interface can be used for free under special terms.  Please have a look at
       the application programming guide of weather.com (<http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html>)!

perl v5.8.8							    2007-07-09						Weather::Com::UVIndex(3pm)