I completely agree. More and more of that stuff runs "in the cloud" anyway, because running a couple of racks of high end hardware under your office desk just isn't feasable.

Cloud almost always means "HTTP", and Perl is very good at interfacing with stuff like that directly, without having to remote-control a browser. (Yes, sometime you have to pay extra to use those "professional" APIs).

In my experience, it's often easier to interface with those newer services, because they provide modern APIs based on modern standards. It's much more work to interface with old services that originally pre-dated the modern web and just converted their paper-based data exchange to textfile-based ones.

My bet is, you get get an interface to ChatGPT going much faster that ingress NOAA space weather prediction data. ChatGPT has some well defined Web APIs. They have a docomented workflow, documented return codes, etc...

NOAA gives you a text file. When to pull new data? What are the exact parsing rules? Are there exceptions when the format could slightly change? How to convert the values into a nice 1-5 scale? Those are the things you have to spend a day painstakingly searching and reading obscure documents...

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In reply to Re^2: perl hooks for AI by cavac
in thread perl hooks for AI by Aldebaran

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