[help] Weather Docklet Not Working

I think weather.com is doing something funky again...the weather docklet is listing the temperature, but not showing the condition (just a gray sun with "?" in it). I noticed with YzDock the weather docklet was showin "invalid unit".

If I change the Yz docklet to point to beta.weather.com it works fine...is there a way to get the Moby docklet to point to that server? Or somehow fix whatever is going on?

#58938

hi,

weather.com changed the html-code, so the parser doesn't work correctly. it is fixed in the new release which can be expected in some days.

Moby

#58943

Thanks Moby...good to know it'll be fixed....but you're killing me with the waiting :D

no pressure...I'm sure it'll be worth the wait....I'll just be checking back here every 15 minutes now to see if it's been released ;)

#58960

I posted a link in the samurize forum that might be of interest for this to work better, it seems that weather.com offers a service to download their data in xml eliminating the need to write a parser for their site, check my post here or just head on over directly to http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html to check out their service.

#59133

I was going to post a link to this service. Only problem is that every user has to subscribe for himself. I don't think their policy allows a program writer to open an account for it's entire user base. That means it has to be explained somewhere and eventually the procedure can be simplified using mobydock as a frontend (but this still means parsing changing html in that case so the chances that it fails in the future are still here).

#60186

The whole weather XML thing is meant for the developer to register the application so it can use the data and then make it freely available to the users (yes it has to be freely available.).

Check my post about it @Aqua-Soft Samurize Forum.

Here's a sample of the data you'd get: http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/MXDF0...&dayf=10&unit=m; that URL is lacking the prod parameter (application id -- given to the developer) and a key which right now they don't seem to be validating... but they might eventually.

...anyway... my point was, that the end users don't have to register (Y)

#60279

Cool :D

Let's use this instead, then...

#60489