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Is there a way to get the weather for a specified time of the day via RSS or a script?

Asked by erichw1504 (26448points) September 2nd, 2009

Looking for a way to get daily updates on the next few days of the weather each morning at 7:00 am for my bike ride to work. Any way to do this with an RSS feed or creating a script or something?

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robmandu's avatar

In direct answer to your question, weather [dot] com offers RSS feeds here.

Depending on your feed reader software, you can configure the frequency that a particular feed is polled for updates.

Not sure I understand the intent here. How do you want this information presented to you?

Via RSS, that would mean you’ve got some sort of feed reader. A feed reader implies you’ve got some sort of computing device with a web browser: a desktop, a laptop, an iPhone, something.

If you’ve got a web browser, then you likely can just bookmark a particular weather page for your area. Then just hit that bookmark whenever you want. The iPhone has a builtin weather app. The Blackberry also offers a free download weather app

For example, I’d simply bookmark my location of interest via weather [dot] com and check it each morning. Set it as your web browser’s default home page if that’s easiest.

erichw1504's avatar

@robmandu My intent is to be able to just see 7:00 am’s temperature, wind, and other stats quickly and easily for the next day or two, so I can easily plan for the mornings commute.

robmandu's avatar

@erichw1504, yah, but why not just pop up a web page like I suggested in the 2nd half of my quip?

What is it about having access to an RSS feed that meets your particular need?

Not criticizing, just curious.

erichw1504's avatar

@robmandu I was just looking for a quick way to view the next day’s weather conditions at 7am without have to go through all the clicks to get to 7am on weather.com or any other weather site.

prasad's avatar

I have Vista Inspirat on Windows XP. It has an object bar like that in Mac. It shows weather, both in icons and description. I haven’t used it and it needs internet of course.

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