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Title: TodayPlus Weather data
Post by: Psalmista on February 19, 2004, 08:38:24 AM

Does anybody have a clue form where does TodayPlus gets its weather data?

Title: TodayPlus Weather data
Post by: joelw135 on February 19, 2004, 08:57:26 AM

The weather data comes from MSNBC.com which gets it from the weather channel.

Title: But how does it get it?
Post by: Psalmista on February 19, 2004, 10:05:01 AM

But how does it get it from MSN or Weather channel? Is there a place where you can download raw weather data for use in your own apps?

Title: TodayPlus Weather data
Post by: fishboy on February 19, 2004, 10:13:48 AM

The web address used to retrieve the data is:

http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=XXXXX

where XXXXX is the zipcode of the location to retrieve weather information.

The html page can be parsed to retrieve the data for each element.

Title: TodayPlus Weather data
Post by: joelw135 on February 19, 2004, 10:57:37 AM

It would be nice if we could get it directly from Weather Channel, since MSNBC is down atleast twice a week. Well we discused this before! Talking to myself again.

Title: Sun/Moon data?
Post by: Psalmista on February 20, 2004, 10:55:51 AM

Ok, so how about Sun / Moon data? where's that coming from?

Title: Re: Sun/Moon data?
Post by: jhollin1138 on February 20, 2004, 10:58:35 AM

Quote from: PsalmistaOk, so how about Sun / Moon data? where's that coming from?

I believe that I read a post from srs that they are calculated inside TodayPlus. I will try and find the post.

Edit: Check out this thread (http://www.dark-mojo.com/todayplus/viewtopic.php?t=669).

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