i need some help guys

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Posted: 19 March 2007 10:20 AM

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Anyone good at extracting RSS feeds?

I have a weather RSS feed but has many elements…. here is the feed .. FEED LINK

All I want to do is get the numeric representation of the current temperature?

Anyone up for the challenge?

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Rob W

Posted: 19 March 2007 11:44 AM

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I can’t see any way to accomplish that with this feed—there’s nothing there to say ‘this is a temperature’:

<item>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">0.8899863764885236</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:36:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <title><![CDATA[Current Weather Conditions In Huntsville, Canada]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.weather.com/weather/local/CAXX0648?cm_pla=city_page&cm_ite=cc&site=city_page&cm_ven=LWO&cm_cat=rss&par=LWO_rss]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/31/14.gif?12122006" alt="" />Light Snow, and 28 &deg; F. For more details?]]></description>
    </item> 

Am I looking at the right feed?

EDIT: RSS feeds won’t offer you what you need; you’ll want an XML feed. Weather.com offer one, but I stopped signing up when they tried to subscribe me to umpteen newsletters so I’m not sure whether it’s what you need… LINK

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[CoDeR]

Posted: 19 March 2007 11:51 AM

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yeah; thats the right feed. I figured it wouldn’t be usuable. Thank you.

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Posted: 19 March 2007 11:53 AM

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try using
yahoo weather
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
or
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/

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Posted: 19 March 2007 12:08 PM

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I also found this which gives a VERY NICE xml response from weather.com

http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/CAXX0648?cc=*

the only problem is, i dont know if it’s legal to use or not. Can someone that is good with licenses check out the following page and let me know if the script is okay to use? Legal Notice #1

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Posted: 19 March 2007 12:12 PM

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I’ve used this in the past what do you plan on doing with it.

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Posted: 19 March 2007 12:13 PM

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display the current temp (just the temp example: 19F) thats it

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Posted: 19 March 2007 12:17 PM

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If it’s for a small site with not much traffic no problem.

Just a hint query the feed and cache the results so don’t get to many hits on their system. I know they have a limit. I just cant recall what it is.

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Posted: 08 July 2007 08:35 PM

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Any solution for this? I can’t seem to get it working with Weather.com…

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Posted: 08 July 2007 11:41 PM

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Yes; I got it working.. I will post the code here so stay tuned.. i am heading to bed, will do it in the morning.

Kev

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