Weather Script

anybody have one or know where I can get one

[coopfreak]

I'm trying to find a free attractive script that will post the current weather for a specified location on my site. Does anyone have one or know of a place where I can get one?

[rocknbil]

You won't find this with Javascript (that I know of,) it's probably going to require some server-side programming.

If you don't like the weather bugs from the big dogs, there will be some accuracy issues. Have a look at rssweather.com. They've got a pretty cool system, but a problem with accuracy in some areas.

How NOAA gathers the weather and how you get weather for an area that does not have a weather data collection station (in that precise location) is the complex part. If you're near or at one of those areas, no problem.

I also would like to hear from others on this one, been dealing with this one for a VERY long time. We have a multiple-city site and some of the cities are in No-man's land (err . . .no-person's land) and those are highly inaccurate many times.

[coopfreak]

I checked out that site. looks good, but I don't realy know how to use an rss feed and just copying the code they provide gives me alot of extra text and crap. How would I do that on my page?

[rocknbil]

How are you at perl/php? We format the RSS output from it to fit our pages.

There are some other goofy things going on w. it too - non-html entities that render as?. But for free, you can't complain a lot. :-) <sigh> need to find a day to digest the RSS XML feeds myself, there is supposed to be a reason they call it Really Simple.

[coopfreak]

not familiar at all with php/perll...there's got to be a way to get the weather on my page I'm open to almost anything....

[lovethecoast]

weather.com has a free xml feed you can use with credit back to them.

serviceobjects.net has an xml feed for minimum $50 a month (depends on usage). We use this for 20 cities and it works great.

[coopfreak]

I tried the weather.com xml feed...very big and for some reason my background color was on top of the background image they provide for the feed (strange). Looking for something small and simple.

[lovethecoast]

I'm not quite sure how much more simple you can get than a direct xml feed. You configure it to look exactly as you want it.

It's just a string of text -- you parse out the data you want to show and display it in the manner you want to show it. Or store it in a db for later access.

[coopfreak]

well, the xml from weather.com is really just a link, you can't access the code directly. I've been looking for awhile and still can't find a good looking weather code, link, script, whatever. Anybody?

[alberia2404]

Here you go:
[dynaweather.com...]

You can customize and grab the javascript from that site.

If that doesn't work here is a list of various different sites that offer up weather scripts: [freesticky.com...]

[coopfreak]

Wow, Thanks. I found "Weather for you" in the second link and I like it. Very nice. Small, cutomizable and to the point.

Thanks! :)

[rocknbil]

Pretty sure that is the rssweather.com software, modified. :-)