Chris, I was doing just that. Testing Yahoo and then Google's api. I will check into the NOAA next. Thanks for the heads up. It puts out a lot of data over the others.
I like the raw lat/long concept. It won't be more than once an hour, so that's ok. I did find the way to skip the WOEIDs and go right to the zip code with yahoo. Weather Bug Geo didn't work for me although I like their accuracy the best - the API is weak and doesn't always work. I had problems with it anyway. So now I will check the NOAA THanks -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Dec 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Nonsanity wrote: > I've tested both Yahoo and Google's (undocumented) REST APIs for weather, > but settled on NOAA's: > > http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/sample_products/browser_interface/ndfdXMLclient.php?lat=38.99&lon=-77.01&product=glance&begin=2010-12-28T00:00:00&end=2011-01-03T00:00:00<%20http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/sample_products/browser_interface/ndfdXMLclient.php?lat=38.99&lon=-77.01&product=glance&begin=2010-12-28T00:00:00&end=2011-01-03T00:00:00> > > Note that first the output defines one or more time series with a name like > "k-p24h-n5-1", then has sections for each of the results. The URL above uses > the "glance" setting, so it always gives the same result categories. The NOAA > page on the API <http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/rest.php> goes into > more detail about what other data types you can fetch. > > The thing to note is that the time series name is human readable. "p24h" > means 24 hours per sample, and "n5" means 5 samples. > > Nice thing is, it takes raw lat/lon. No conversion to zip code or other > location metric. I've already got a nice temp chart going. Just don't fetch > the data more than once an hour in the final product - There's no point, as > it only updates once per hour on the 45's. > > ~ Chris Innanen > ~ Nonsanity > > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com>wrote: > >> By the way I tried all of the examples posted to better see what I was >> missing. I'm a visual oriented person and so I went with steps I could see. >> Only one problem in removing leading spaces, I took the lazy way out after >> getting confused again with multiple repeat loops etc. >> >> So here is what I decided to use for now: >> >> on mouseUp >> put "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=22664069&u=f"; into >> tTempURL >> put url tTempURL into field "Source" >> put field 1 into tTemp >> filter tTemp with "*yweather:*" >> replace "<" with "" in tTemp >> replace "/>" with "" in tTemp >> replace "yweather:" with "" in tTemp >> replace quote&space with quote&cr in tTemp -- Did the trick >> repeat for 5 -- Lazy way to catch leading spaces >> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in tTemp >> if char 1 of line x of tTemp is space then delete >> char 1 of line x of tTemp >> if line x of tTemp is quote then delete line x of >> tTemp >> if line x of tTemp is "" then delete line x of tTemp >> end repeat >> end repeat >> if last line of tTemp is "" then delete last line of tTemp >> put tTemp into field "Result" >> end mouseUp >> >> I don't mind the quotes in the Result for my other code and I get a nice >> list of the info I need. >> >> Now I need to write a LAT LON converter to WOEID and or a ZIP Code to WOEID >> (Yahoo ID scheme) >> >> w=22664069 is for Bethel Park PA >> >> >> -- Tom McGrath III >> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com >> 3mcgr...@comcast.net >> >> On Dec 28, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >>> Jeff- >>> >>> Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 4:47:02 PM, you wrote: >>> >>>> So, most others have sent you excellent suggestions. I just find >>>> it funny that the little town you mention just happened to be the >>>> place I was born. ;-) >>> >>> You could probably save Tom a lot of trouble if you just tell him what >>> the weather's like... >>> >>> -- >>> -Mark Wieder >>> mwie...@ahsoftware.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
