Have you ever had a project where you needed to know if your school or business is closed or delayed? Your problem is solved!
This program will scrap the page at http://www.wgal.com/weather/closings. (Pennslyvania-Weather-Closings nor its authors are affiliated with WGAL.)
>>> from weatherScrapper import closings
>>> closings()
{'Dixon Univ Center-Harrisburg': {'status': 'Saturday: Closed', 'emailListKey': 'lan_closingsibstandard119', 'updateTimestamp': '2015-01-23T15:16:00.000-06:00', 'address': 'Harrisburg / Dauphin / PA'}, 'Dillsburg Area Public Library': {'status': 'Saturday: Closed', 'emailListKey': 'lan_ ...
Note that this function will place a cache of the file in closings.html. If you do want a cache, do
>>> closings(cache=None)
or if you want to update the cache you already have
closings(useCache=False)
It could theortically be used with other programming Languages by simply running it like this:
$ python2 weatherScrapper.py
Dixon Univ Center-Harrisburg
STATUS: Saturday: Closed
EMAILLISTKEY: lan_closingsibstandard119
UPDATETIMESTAMP: 2015-01-23T15:16:00.000-06:00
ADDRESS: Harrisburg / Dauphin / PA
Dillsburg Area Public Library
STATUS: ...
Here is its command line info.
usage: weatherScrapper.py [-h] [--usecache] [--verbose] [--cache CACHE]
Process closing information from external website
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--usecache use the HTML cached on the local machine
--verbose write debugging to stderr
--cache CACHE name of the cache file
Want to help? See the wiki.
This program is designed to be included in other programs. For example, I made this so I could make a raspberry pi alarm clock that would allow me to sleep in if there was no school. If have an idea for how this could be used, sumbit it as an Issue.