Webparser not working (rexex failure)

sailfix · Post by **sailfix** » February 18th, 2019, 9:52 pm

I've used "Raimeter Settings" and added functionality to check, if "Eample Settings" is running.

Every regex checker shows, that the used rexex expression is correct.

Please help
Kind regards
Peter

Post by **eclectic-tech** » February 19th, 2019, 12:25 am

All Vista Rainbar's 12 weather skin versions use Yahoo for the source for data.

As of Jan 3, 2019, Yahoo shutdown their free access weather API, so all skins that used Yahoo will never work.

It is possible to convert most Yahoo skin to use The Weather Channel WXData feed, but it is not a simple process. I have not looked closely at Vista Rainbar, but it appears to be a bit more robust than just getting the temperature and condition, so it will involve some work to modify it.

If you want to try, there may be several members who might be interested in helping you modify one of the skins.
Once you modify one, a copy & paste method should get the other versions working too.

sailfix · Post by **sailfix** » February 19th, 2019, 7:07 pm

Thank you for your reply. BTW Wheather Channel has also closed every free access.

I need an answer what the problem with webparser is, if I check "rainmeter.ini" in the user appdata folder.

Kind Regards
Peter

Post by **eclectic-tech** » February 19th, 2019, 8:33 pm

sailfix wrote: ↑February 19th, 2019, 7:07 pm Thank you for your reply. BTW Wheather Channel has also closed every free access.

Really? Amazing that every weather skin using TWC data is still working ... you are mistaken about TWC data being unavailable.

sailfix wrote:I need an answer what the problem with webparser is, if I check "rainmeter.ini" in the user appdata folder.

Add Codepage=1200 to the [MeasureConfig1State] section.

This is due to a change to Rainmeter.ini encoding; you can find out more in this change notice

Post by **balala** » February 19th, 2019, 8:45 pm

eclectic-tech wrote: ↑February 19th, 2019, 8:33 pm Really? Amazing that every weather skin using TWC data is still working ... you are mistaken about TWC data being unavailable.

I suppose sailfix was talking about something else then weather.com (I'm not sure what he wanted to say by TWC though). Weather.com is definitely working and it does this for free (thanks them!).

sailfix · Post by **sailfix** » February 20th, 2019, 9:36 pm

Many thanks to eclectic-tech; that works perfectly.

I'm really interested, if TWC still works; the follwing URL, I've used in the past, does NOT:
"http://wxdata.weather.com/wxdata/weather/local/AUXX0025&u=c". It returns:
<error>
<err type="2">Invalid location provided.</err>
</error>

So please, could you please provide me:
1) any url to query location data for configuring weather
2) any url to query waether data for a specific location (with languge parameter and temperature measurent parameter, if possible)

Thank you again.
Peter

sailfix · Post by **sailfix** » February 20th, 2019, 11:33 pm

Thank you all.

Yes you are right, TWC is still working. Googling further Istumbled over eclectic-tech's "Win10WeatherMultilingual". It was clear that I've lost the "?cc=*" during past years.

I don't know, but there may be an enhencement for this wonderful skin. If you change the "TempUnit" to "m", not "c", as so : "http://wxdata.weather.com/wxdata/weather/local/AUXX0025?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=6&locale=de"
you will get the following output:

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<weather ver="2.0">
<head>
<locale>de</locale>
<form>MEDIUM</form>
[Shadow]<ut>C</ut>
<ud>km</ud>
<us>km/h</us>
<up>hPa</up>
<ur>mm</ur>[/Shadow]
</head>
<loc id="AUXX0025">
<dnam>Wien, 9, Österreich</dnam>
<tm>11:58 PM</tm>
<lat>48.21</lat>
<lon>16.37</lon>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<zone>1</zone>
</loc>
<cc>
<lsup>2/20/19 10:00 PM CET</lsup>
<obst>Wien/City, 9, AU</obst>
<tmp>8</tmp>
<flik>7</flik>
<t/>
<icon/>
<bar>
<r>1004.74</r>
<d>steigend</d>
</bar>
<wind>
<s>6</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>290</d>
<t>WNW</t>
</wind>
<hmid>68</hmid>
<vis/>
<uv>
<i>0</i>
<t>Niedrig</t>
</uv>
<dewp>3</dewp>
<moon>
<icon>16</icon>
<t>Waning Gibbous</t>
</moon>
</cc>
<dayf>
<lsup>2/20/19 7:00 AM CET</lsup>
<day d="0" t="Wednesday" dt="Feb 20">
<hi>8</hi>
<low>1</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon/>
<t/>
<wind>
<s>calm</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>0</d>
<t>CALM</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>0</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>26</icon>
<t>Bedeckt</t>
<wind>
<s>calm</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>0</d>
<t>CALM</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>10</ppcp>
<hmid>87</hmid>
</part>
</day>
<day d="1" t="Thursday" dt="Feb 21">
<hi>12</hi>
<low>6</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon>28</icon>
<t>Stark bewölkt</t>
<wind>
<s>16</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>277</d>
<t>W</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>20</ppcp>
<hmid>68</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>12</icon>
<t>Später Regen</t>
<wind>
<s>16</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>277</d>
<t>W</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>80</ppcp>
<hmid>79</hmid>
</part>
</day>
<day d="2" t="Friday" dt="Feb 22">
<hi>9</hi>
<low>-5</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon>11</icon>
<t>Vorm. leichter Regen</t>
<wind>
<s>30</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>343</d>
<t>NNW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>70</ppcp>
<hmid>73</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>31</icon>
<t>Klar</t>
<wind>
<s>30</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>343</d>
<t>NNW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>59</hmid>
</part>
</day>
<day d="3" t="Saturday" dt="Feb 23">
<hi>2</hi>
<low>-5</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon>30</icon>
<t>Wolkig</t>
<wind>
<s>17</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>356</d>
<t>N</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>42</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>31</icon>
<t>Klar</t>
<wind>
<s>17</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>356</d>
<t>N</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>60</hmid>
</part>
</day>
<day d="4" t="Sunday" dt="Feb 24">
<hi>6</hi>
<low>0</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon>32</icon>
<t>Sonnig</t>
<wind>
<s>9</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>225</d>
<t>SW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>46</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>29</icon>
<t>Wolkig</t>
<wind>
<s>9</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>225</d>
<t>SW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>56</hmid>
</part>
</day>
<day d="5" t="Monday" dt="Feb 25">
<hi>11</hi>
<low>0</low>
<sunr>6:53</sunr>
<suns>17:24</suns>
<part p="d">
<icon>34</icon>
<t>Heiter</t>
<wind>
<s>19</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>301</d>
<t>WNW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>47</hmid>
</part>
<part p="n">
<icon>29</icon>
<t>Wolkig</t>
<wind>
<s>19</s>
<gust>N/A</gust>
<d>301</d>
<t>WNW</t>
</wind>
<bt/>
<ppcp>0</ppcp>
<hmid>68</hmid>
</part>
</day>
</dayf>
</weather>

Hope this may be helpfull in avoiding calculations in a simplified form of your skin.
Kind regards
Peter

sailfix · Post by **sailfix** » February 20th, 2019, 11:40 pm

Again a small question:
Are the icon numbers identical to the old ones of Yahoo ?

Thank you again
Peter

Post by **eclectic-tech** » February 21st, 2019, 3:46 am

sailfix wrote: ↑February 20th, 2019, 11:40 pm Again a small question:
Are the icon numbers identical to the old ones of Yahoo ?

Thank you again
Peter

I am not sure about the icons being the same... I would doubt that they are. Somewhere there is a list of the "general" conditions indicated by the icon numbers, but I will have to look around for that.

In reply to your enhancement to multilingual weather to obtain Metric values...
the original Win10 Weather skin, and my multilingual version, both do the conversion from Imperial to Metric using measures in the skin; this does not require the skin to re-read the entire weather data from the TWC. The context menu offers the option to view Metric or Imperial values.

Glad you got things working!

Post by **balala** » February 21st, 2019, 2:30 pm

sailfix wrote: ↑February 20th, 2019, 11:40 pm Are the icon numbers identical to the old ones of Yahoo ?

They are somehow similar, but not identical at all. Here is a lis of icons used by Yahoo and here one used by weather.com.

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