That's a VERY interesting idea... :-D Think you could publish some external?
As for the copyright issues, why not requesting such a "written consent from Yahoo!" ? They may find it a reasonable use. Maybe...
alabala
2008/6/25 altern altern2@gmail.com:
hi
anyone knows of an online worldwide forecast service? I am developing some python scripts with Pyext external that retrieve different type of data from the net into PD.
At the moment i have been using yahoo weather, this is quite handy because they have RSS feed that can be easily manipulated from python and returned into PD.
Currently i have scripts that tell me the external IP of my computer and another one that uses the IP to retrieve geolocation data (lat, long, nearby city, country ), using this i think i should be able to ask yahoo for weather data of an specific city and country and from there access the RSS.
However I think there are some copyright issues with yahoo weather. I read a notice in the HTML source of yahoo weather saying that this data is not to be used without permission " ...You are prohibited from using or repurposing this data in any way without express written consent from Yahoo! ..."
I guess i could pretend i did not see the notice but maybe there is some worldwide forecast service that would allow me to use the data?
thanks
enrike
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