Meteorology::Australia

As promised in my previous post Weather goes thou, Spider?, the following code lets you automate checking the weather in Australia from the Bureau of Meteorology.

If you live in Australia (or just have a perverse fascination with foreign climes), you can set up the following program as a cron job to email you the weather at the time of your choosing. (Note that this requires manual configuration of your own cron/anacron settings.)

Note: You need to change the appropriate URL to indicate the state/region information you want, and the email address(es) you want it to go to.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $main_url = "http://www.bom.gov.au";
my $entry_point = "http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/forecasts.shtml";
my $webpage = undef;

use HTML::TokeParser;
use LWP 5.65;
use Mail::Send;

    my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    my $response = $browser->get( $entry_point );
    if ($response->is_success)
    {
        my $text = $response->content;
        my $link = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$text);

#look for the link to the actual Melbourne Precis Forecast
        while (my $token = $link->get_tag("a"))
        {
            my $url = $token->[1]{href} || "-";
            my $text = $link->get_trimmed_text("/a");
            $webpage = $url
                if ($text =~ m/Melbourne Precis Forecast/);
        }
  my $response = $browser->get($main_url . $webpage);

            die "Can't get $webpage -- ", $response->status_line
        unless $response->is_success;

         die "Hey, I was expecting HTML, not ",$response->content_type
        unless $response->content_type eq 'text/html';

        my $webpage_contents = $response->content;

        my $pre = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$webpage_contents );

        if ($pre->get_tag( "pre" )) {
            my $forecast = $pre->get_text;

            my $msg = new Mail::Send Subject=>"Today's Forecast",
                                 To=>'YOUREMAIL@YOURADDRESS.com.au',
                                # cc=>'',
                                ;
            my $fh = $msg->open;
            print $fh "$forecast";
            $fh->close;
        }
    }
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Re: Meteorology::Australia by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 13, 2002 at 15:28 UTC
Worked for me with LWP 5.64.	[reply]
Re: Meteorology::Australia by quinkan (Monk) on Sep 20, 2002 at 05:24 UTC
Hey, this only gets Melbourne weather -- and that's a one-liner once you've got all the Mail:Send stuff going: `print "Morning showers, settling to rain. Rain tomorrow.\n";` [download] Sydney, on the other hand, takes: ...<stuff>..../nsw/forecasts.shtml .... <stuff> and needs to look for /Metropolitan Forecast/	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Meteorology::Australia by greenFox (Vicar) on Sep 20, 2002 at 06:59 UTC
For Perth it is more like this- `if (rand(100) > 5 ){ print "It's going to be sunny!\n"; } else { print "Slight chance of showers today.\n"; }` [download] :-) -- Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell	[reply] [d/l]