#!/usr/bin/perl -w # $Revision: 1.12 $ use strict; use Weather::Com::Simple; $| = 1; # have a cvs driven version... our $VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d", q$Revision: 1.12 $ =~ /(\d+)/g; # you have to fill in your ids from weather.com here my $PartnerId = ''; my $LicenseKey = ''; # if you need a proxy... maybe with authentication my $Proxy = ''; my $Proxy_User = ''; my $Proxy_Pass = ''; # debugging on/off my $debugmode = 0; if ( $ARGV[0] && ( $ARGV[0] eq "-d" ) ) { warn "Debug mode turned on.\n"; $debugmode = 1; } my %weatherargs = ( 'partner_id' => $PartnerId, 'license' => $LicenseKey, 'debug' => $debugmode, 'proxy' => $Proxy, 'proxy_user' => $Proxy_User, 'proxy_pass' => $Proxy_Pass, ); # print greeting print "\nWelcome to Uncle Tom's weather station...\n"; print "This is V$VERSION\n"; print "\nPlease enter a location name to look for, e.g\n"; print "'Heidelberg' or 'Seattle, WA', or 'Munich, Germany'\n\n"; # define prompt my $prompt = '$> '; print $prompt; while ( chomp( my $input = ) ) { # don't want any empty input unless ( $input =~ /\S+/ ) { print $prompt; next; } # and if the user wants to exit... last if ( $input =~ /^end|quit|exit$/ ); # add place to config hash and get weather $weatherargs{'place'} = $input; my $ws = Weather::Com::Simple->new(%weatherargs); my $weather = $ws->get_weather(); # if $ws->get_weather() returned 'undef', we haven't found anything... unless ($weather) { print "No weather found for location '$input'\n"; print $prompt; next; } # if we found anything we'll print it out... # Weather::Simple allways returns an arrayref. maybe we found more # than 1 location's weather print "\nFound weather data for " . ( $#{$weather} + 1 ) . " locations:\n\n"; foreach my $location_weather ( @{$weather} ) { # print a nice heading underlined by '====' my $heading = "These are the current conditions for " . $location_weather->{place} . "\n"; print $heading; print "=" x length($heading), "\n"; # print weather data we're interested in print " * current conditions are ", $location_weather->{conditions}, "\n"; print " * the current temperature is ", $location_weather->{temperature_celsius}, " degrees celsius\n"; print " * the current windchill is ", $location_weather->{windchill_celsius}, " degrees celsius\n"; print " * wind is ", $location_weather->{wind}, "\n"; print " * humidity is ", $location_weather->{humidity}, "%\n"; print " * air pressure is ", $location_weather->{pressure}, "\n"; print " => this data has been updated on ", $location_weather->{updated}, "\n\n"; } # last but not least print the next prompt print $prompt; } __END__ =pod =head1 NAME weather.pl - Sample script to show the usage of the I module =head1 SYNOPSIS #> ./weather.pl [-d] Welcome to Uncle Tom's weather station... Please enter a location name to look for, e.g 'Heidelberg' or 'Seattle, WA', or 'Munich, Germany' Type 'end' to exit. $> =head1 DESCRIPTION **IMPORTANT** You first have to register at I to get a partner id and a license key for free. Please visit their web site L. Then edit this script and fill in the data into the corresponding variables at the top of the script. The sample script I asks you for a location name - either a city or a 'city, region' or 'city, country' combination. It then uses the I module to get the current weather conditions for this location(s). If no location matching your input is found, a "no locations found" message is printed out. Else, the number of locations found is printed followed by nicely formatted weather data for each location. The command line parameter '-d' enables debugging mode (which is enabling debugging within all used packages (Weather::Com::Simple, Weather::Com::Cached, Weather::Com::Base). =head1 AUTHOR Thomas Schnuecker, Ethomas@schnuecker.deE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2004-2005 by Thomas Schnuecker This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut