Datascraper - Met Office

[MFULLER]

Hi Guys/Jon00,

Has anyone tried to use the Data grabber to retrieve severe weather warnings from the met office?

This page for example:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...&regionName=sw

The main problem I can see is that the text is not in the page sauce. Also how to handle multiple alerts (just a wind alert at time of writting). Sometimes there can be more than one.. sometimes none..

Anyone ever tried? If so, care to share some tips? Any help much appreciated.

Marc

[jon00]

I have not scraped this page. If you can find a common pattern in the HTML for each alert, Data scraper will capture this and store the outputs in the ini file under [0] [1] [2] etc.

You can then create a number of virtual devices which will show the tag data if it contains data or a - if not.

That all said, the site uses inline elements to display the data so cannot be scraped by this application.

[MFULLER]

Hmm, after a day of playing, I can't seem to get reliable results. I think the met office page is just too dynamic to be scrapable.

Do you per chance get severe weather alerts into your system Jon00?

[jon00]

No but the Beeb site may be easier....

[mrhappy]

You looked at their RSS feeds? May be simpler to get talking to HS - http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/d...sRSS/Region/UK