Hey,
Long shot I know but I was hoping someone may have a script that downloaded ski conditions.
I worked out a way to automate a screen shot of a good site, onthesnow.com, which of course
only works well if the site doesn’t change…which it usually does.
Appreciate any ideas or any scripts to get started.
Thanks,
Carl
I think your request is way too broad. Maybe another skier/snowboarder has done it. But if not, what exactly do you want to get out of it? Screenshot, text, email, SMS to a phone, parse some text on the page? What site(s), there could be a few of them, with xml or rss feeds etc? You get the picture.
If you at least have a concept in mind you will get more help on some specific code.
Hi,
You be able to download ski conditions with xml-rpc or soap if you can find a site. I haven’t used this in years.
Edited: this site has some topics you can look through:
http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/Directory.po;jsessionid=7OS3NKnQIOp_FOolhZ9J7M2L
gl,
kel
The goal is to get the ski info into my home automation app for viewing. For me a text file would be easiest
to deal with. The screen shot technique works and looks great but again, not consistent.
onthesnow.com seems about as good a ski site as any.
Have to look into the RSS feeds, maybe something there to work with.
Thanks,
Carl
Hi ckeyes888,
On the RSS page, do the links for certain locations always have the same name. For instance, is the first link always “Alaska Ski Report”.
If the link names are always the same you can get the link with javascript.
gl,
kel
It might be better to go to the site map:
http://www.onthesnow.com/site_map.html
because the RSS links might need some software you don’t have.
Edited: FYI, I don’t know what RSS is :), but when I hit the links (reminds me today is golf day), it tells me that I don’t have an RSS app.
gl,
kel
Hi,
It looks like, this link is always the same.
http://www.onthesnow.com/california/ski-resorts.html
If this link is always the same, then you could just go to this link and parse the page for the info that you need. I’d think that all the links are like this on the site map. Just guessing.
gl,
kel
The only thing wrong with this is that some ski sites might have more than one page. It would be easy if the one you’re looking for has only one page.
Excellent, thanks a bunch. Now just have to learn to parse what I need out of a page.
Carl