ENV Canada XML Parser
May 28, 2004 - 5:06am — Anonymous
Hi there,
I saw some stuff a year ago on parsing weather data from Env Canada and then publishing the output as XML. Have you had any more success with this? I'm in the process of exploring ways to include current weather on our corporate intranet and I want something "home-grown". I've had a certain degree of success, but my parser has a few weaknesses, so I'm looking around to see if anyone else has attempted this.
Its annoying, why can't they just offer an XML feed??? I'd set it up for them for free even!
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Thanks! I was (still am) j
Thanks!
I was (still am) just parsing the HTML from the site and dumping into an XML file, but like you say, its not a long-term solution. Once in while I have a problem with junk data etc and its just not a "clean" solution.
Anyway, thx ;)
Chris
Parsing Environment Canada
I did have my own solution, which was screen-scraping Environment Canada's HTML pages, caching the information locally, and displaying it in a different format. Screen-scraping is not a nice long-term solution.
I haven't added anything in a while, but you can check my RSS Weather section for a bunch of resources.
For Drupal (the code that runs this site), there is now the weather module. The developer's site is Badgergoose, and the information is pulled from Weatherroom. Information on Weatherroom's XML output is on this page, and yes, it does have Canadian locations.