As requested, a fairly rough and ready proof of concept using Mojo:

Your script works perfectly, right out of the gate. I have tons of questions but don't want to muck up this thread by overreaching on this nice, neat result. I have been trying to imitate and extend it in other ways, but these results are slow to attain, but I don't want you to think I'm not trying:

$ ls *mo*
1.1.mojo_api.pl   1.monk.tag.pl     2.3.mojo_json.pl   2.monk.tag.pl
1.1.mojo_json.pl  1.mo_pm.pl        2.4.mojo_json.pl   3.1.mojo_weathe
+r.pl
1.2.mojo_api.pl   1.mo_pm.txt       2.5.mojo_json.pl   3.mojo_weather.
+pl
1.mojo_json.pl    2.1.mojo_json.pl  2.mojo_json.pl
1.mojo_tree.pl    2.2.mojo_json.pl  2.mojo_weather.pl
$

[download]

Some of them didn't work for the strangest reasons. I had to get used to the strangeness in other cases. I will have run these hundreds of times of times before it dawned on me that the reason I never saw a value of rainfall other than undef is that no one on god's green earth has any idea what that value could be. (I wonder why it's there. A stubout for guesses?)

I do want to pursue these ideas further, though, and have started another thread which generalizes this result: getting Sun info with Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun

Thanks so much for lending your considerable expertise to the matter at hand....

In reply to Re^2: polishing up a json fetching script for weather data by Aldebaran
in thread polishing up a json fetching script for weather data by Aldebaran

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