Category: | Web Stuff |
Author/Contact Info | missingthepoint/ben petering |
Description: | Grab tomorrow's forecast from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website using Web::Scraper |
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use URI;
use Web::Scraper;
my $cities = scraper {
process "td > a", city => 'TEXT';
process "td.alignright", temperature => 'TEXT';
process "td.alignright + td", comments => 'TEXT';
};
my $bom = scraper {
process "#pad tr", 'cities[]' => $cities;
result 'cities';
};
my $res = $bom->scrape( URI->new("http://www.bom.gov.au") );
die "god bless america\n" unless ref $res eq "ARRAY";
print "Tomorrow's forecast:\n\n";
# we need a way to distinguish tomorrow's forecast and today's...
# tomorrow's temperatures come first, and these are all we want,
# so we reverse and uniq. hack hack
my %tmp;
for (reverse @$res) {
next unless $_->{city};
$_->{temperature} =~ s/\D//g;
$tmp{$_->{city}} = {
temperature => $_->{temperature},
comments => $_->{comments}
};
}
for (sort keys %tmp) {
print $_, " " x (18-length),
$tmp{$_}->{temperature}, " " x (18-length($tmp{$_}->{temperatu
+re})),
$tmp{$_}->{comments}, "\n";
}
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