Weather from the internet

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Has anyone done any work using applescript for extracting weather information from the internet?

#2

You mean like the ‘Current Temperature by Zipcode’ script installed with every copy of Mac OS X and available in the ‘Internet Services’ folder in your Script Menu?

/Library/Scripts/Internet Services/Current Temperature by Zipcode

#3

I’m aware of the SOAP thing that comes in the script. Unfortunately the site the temp comes from only supplies temp, AFAICT, not all weather related data.

#4

True, except that if you look at the script you’ll see it simply makes a SOAP call to xmethods.net. XMethods maintain a list of many SOAP/XML-RPC services. It shouldn’t be hard to tweak the temperature script to query one of their weather servers such as:

http://xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po?key=uuid:49AA3AC6-D7F4-2818-5C51-E0FDF35E55DB

http://xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po?key=uuid:00FC27D5-A4D1-6388-0921-F9CF34362EF9

http://xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po?key=uuid:A36E40DE-53F6-005A-3196-A2BEDB4B4B81

or http://xmethods.net/ve2/ViewListing.po?key=uuid:BAA2ABF4-A8DD-D2D4-2897-AD806861EB32

#5

Thanks Camelot, I’ll check that out.