Hi Susan:

Here's a little process I've set up to grab my local weather information,
it's based upon using telnet and Expect (a Unix scripting language that
allows you to automate interactive processes). It's a simple shell script:

#! /opt/sfw/bin/expect -f
spawn telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com
expect "Press Return to continue:"
send "\n"
expect "or enter 3 letter forecast city code-- "
send "day\n"
expect "Press Return to continue, M to return to menu, X to exit:"
send "X\n"

I output this process to a text file. This information is fairly 'raw' so
I would write a Perl or AWK script to take the information to HTML or
XML. I plan to do this myself, and to key off different words and phrases
like "Mostly cloudy" and "Partly sunny" to substitute appropriate
graphics.

There are many ways to do this, of course, maybe my process will spur
some more efficient ideas!
- Jeff

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Susan Duncan wrote:

> We have a client that wants to include weather information in a 'ticker' window
> on his site.  While I know of a number of sites that will give you code so that
> their graphical weather will show up on your site, I don't know of any that you
> can link to for text information that could be included in a ticker window.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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