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Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

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tommasz
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Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by tommasz »

I noticed recently that Rain.ini no longer displays the chance of precipitation although MoxaWeather.ini works fine. I grabbed the response from the Yahoo weather server and there's no Precipitation value included. Is there a different URL other than http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=#WeatherCode# that has this?
jdisk
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by jdisk »

You might want to try and change the following entries in the rain.ini file

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;; Original: 
;Url=http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/#WeatherCode#
;RegExp="(?siU)Precip:.*align=\"left\">(.*)%"
;; new: works as of jan 19, 2010
Url=http://xhtml.weather.com/xhtml/hbhf/#WeatherCode#
RegExp="Precip:[\n\s]*([0-9]*.*)%"
No guarantees, but it works for me (and for now).
tommasz
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by tommasz »

That works for me, too! Thanks. I guess there's always some risk in scraping a website versus a real API.
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sadMicrowave
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by sadMicrowave »

This fix works great! Thanks!
martyrfc
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by martyrfc »

i done this and it worked last night, woke up this morning and it doesnt, same with the weather in tranquil, got me puzzled
ticotexas
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by ticotexas »

instead of rainfall probability in percentage, how would you write a regexp to extract the rainfall in inches?

for instance, Past 24-hr: Precip: 0.## in (est.) on this url
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Spicewood+TX+USTX1288

i'm a newbie and can't seem to figure it out. thanks
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Re: Rain.ini no longer working - no Precip in Yahoo response

Post by Chewtoy »

ticotexas wrote:instead of rainfall probability in percentage, how would you write a regexp to extract the rainfall in inches?

for instance, Past 24-hr: Precip: 0.## in (est.) on this url
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Spicewood+TX+USTX1288

i'm a newbie and can't seem to figure it out. thanks
If you can find anywhere where they would post that information, it might be parsed.
But as far as I can see, they don't.
I don't think, therefore I'm not.