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Re: Parse wunderground.com

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From: Cydrome Leader
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:53
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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com says...
>> Why not do this the *EASY* way??
>> 
>>   $ station=KIlCHI69   # or whatever the 'neighborhood' station is you want
>>   $ page='weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp'
>>   $ parms='ID='${station}'&wuSelect=PWS&format=1'
>>   $ wget -qO- http://www.wunderground.com/${page}?${parms} >${station}.csv
> 
> Ughh.  I can't believe I missed this!  According to my browser history I 
> was at the local PWS site once.  Thanks.  Your script is simpler and awk 
> friendly.  :-)  That site keeps track of historical data too so I really 
> don't even need to do this.  Maybe I'll tail -n1 your script, pipe it 
> into awk and put a little weather doohickey on the desktop.

If you run that trash called linux just use the watch command to loop the 
wget over and over again.
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Subject: Re: Parse wunderground.com
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