Anyone Interested in a City Temperature App ?

[Velvet Jones]

Win32 platform. Console app that fetches the current temperature from a zipcode or city name you put on the command line. I set it up to only output the value, so it looks very boring, but for Cacti/RRD use, it keeps one from needing to do any parsing.

Velvet Jones

[ttyler]

Here is a trivial perl script that I use. Requires Geo::Weather from http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoweather/?topic_id=96. This is weather.com data.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Geo::Weather;

$zipcode = $ARGV[0];

my $weather = new Geo::Weather;
$weather->{timeout} = 5; # set timeout to 5 seconds instead of the default of 10

my $current = $weather->get_weather($zipcode);

# Temperature, Heat Index, Barometric Pressure, Relative Humidity, Dewpoint
print "$current->{temp} $current->{heat} $current->{baro} $current->{humi} $current->{dewp}";

tim

[ross]

or you can just use lynx and parse the data very easly...
no need to load external modules...

check out the FreeBSD script on this site.