Weather Objects update

Published on November 12, 2003 By _Martin_ In WinCustomize News

The curse of Web services has struck.

The service used by many of the DesktopX weather objects, and some meters appears to have died. The weather objects have now been updated and the meters will be soon.

As such, please update any weather objects you have to avoid problems.

DX2 Weather ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2725 )
DX2 Weather (Animated) ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2828 )
Mattahan Weather ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2892 )

N.B. The International weather object ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=2757 ) is unaffected

Comments

bakerstreet

on Nov 12, 2003

Thanks for the info.

MadDeez

on Nov 12, 2003

thanks for your work on these, martin

hitop

on Nov 13, 2003

Personally I treat this as good news. Those of us who have zip codes starting with a Zero can use your objects now! Thanks!

LS_Boreas

on Nov 13, 2003

Did the weather objects scrape data from weather.com, by chance? I wrote a script to do weather for LiteStep and when it stopped working I saw that they had made deliberate changes to the html code that broke the search algorithm (regexp's). I updated it, but they'll probably change it again. They don't want you to scrape their info unless you load the page and view the ads - they suggest using their XML feed instead. Check out this tag:
IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/please_use_our_XML_feed_instead_of_scraping_this_page/31/24.gif"

LS_Boreas

on Nov 13, 2003

Heh - that got linkified - just mouse over it and you can read what is says though.

_Martin_

on Nov 13, 2003

This is using the weather.com XML feed so no scraping problems.

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