Re: Australian weather with Web::Scraper

Most of the BOM forecasts are available as plain text files via the FTP service - see here.

I find these text files much easier to parse and they are less subject to layout changes from the web version. (In fact, I have never seen the text format change since I started using them.)

As always, TIMTOWTDI ;-)

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Re^2: Australian weather with Web::Scraper by missingthepoint (Friar) on Oct 08, 2008 at 03:39 UTC
Ah, cheers. I wondered if something like that was available. I'll probably hack up a version that uses those... The goal was really to make something useful with Web::Scraper, and I think I achieved that. :) But for reliability I'd use the text files too. email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'	[reply]