Weather Forecast

[Tim Hunt]

And for those who like graphs, look at
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~rjh/melbourne/


T.

Jens Porup wrote:
> Thanks for that, Rick.
> 
> Someone here at work just poked me and showed me a much better
> way of doing this (with a three line shell script, no less. (ouch)).
> 
> Anyway, the main point was to teach myself how to use LWP
> and HTML::TokeParser. which I did. So anyway...
> 
> Cheers. Jens
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:50:41AM +1000, Rick Measham wrote:
> 
>>G'day Jens,
>>
>>The BOM's page titles are static despite the look of the URL. The 
>>precis forecast will always be at 
>>http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV10420.txt thus you could 
>>get rid of your first call to the index page.
>>
>>Their perl script merely reads a text file from their file server and 
>>wraps some HTML around it. 'IDV10420.txt' is the file that contains 
>>Melbourne's precis forecast.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>Rick Measham
> 
>