Weather Objects update
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 by _Martin_ | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The curse of Web services has struck.The service used by many of the DesktopX weather objects, and some meters appears to have died. The weather objects have now been updated and the meters will be soon.
As such, please update any weather objects you have to avoid problems.
DX2 Weather ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2725 )
DX2 Weather (Animated) ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2828 )
Mattahan Weather ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&skinid=2892 )
N.B. The International weather object ( https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=2757 ) is unaffected
hitop
Reply #3 Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:52 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:52 AM
Personally I treat this as good news. Those of us who have zip codes starting with a Zero can use your objects now! Thanks! 
LS_Boreas
Reply #4 Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:39 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:39 PM
Did the weather objects scrape data from weather.com, by chance? I wrote a script to do weather for LiteStep and when it stopped working I saw that they had made deliberate changes to the html code that broke the search algorithm (regexp's). I updated it, but they'll probably change it again. They don't want you to scrape their info unless you load the page and view the ads - they suggest using their XML feed instead. Check out this tag:
IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/please_use_our_XML_feed_instead_of_scraping_this_page/31/24.gif"
IMG SRC="http://image.weather.com/web/common/please_use_our_XML_feed_instead_of_scraping_this_page/31/24.gif"
LS_Boreas
Reply #5 Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:40 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:40 PM
Heh - that got linkified - just mouse over it and you can read what is says though.
_Martin_
Reply #6 Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:57 PM
Reply #6 Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:57 PM
This is using the weather.com XML feed so no scraping problems.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:19 PM