As I continue to recover from my own personal IT nightmare, I have made a few new improvements in order to replace those conveniences that have been fsck'ed away.
This entry, for instances, was made entirely on an stoopid XP box using emacs and win32 perl. The code for this is substantially the same as what I published in that article for use.perl.org about the SOAP interface. So now I can bloginate again, much to the relief of all my attentive readers.
Here I present a small, somewhat naughty utility that replaces a more elegant bash shell hack to spit out my local weather forecast. It scrapes Weather Underground and reports the 5-day forecast on the command line, without ads or other distractions. You will need to change the zipcode, should you wish to use this program yourself.
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Text::Wrap;
my $zip = "02215";
my $url = qq[http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=$zip];
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent(q[Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)]);
my $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET=>$url));
unless ($res->is_success) {
die "Can't fetch $url: ", $res->code, "\n";
}
my $content = $res->content;
my $updated = "";
my $in_rec;
for $_ (split /\n/, $content) {
if ($updated) {
if (m!width="100%" >([^<]+)
!) {
$in_rec = $1;
next;
}
if ($in_rec) {
if (/
/) {
# out of record
print "$in_rec\n";
undef($in_rec);
} else {
$in_rec .= ":\n" . wrap("\t", "\t", $_) . "\n";
}
}
} else {
if (m!Updated: ([^<]+)\s*$!) {
$updated = $1;
print "Updated: $updated\n";
}
}
}