Webscrape

A Web 'Screen Scraper'

To get the current Wind Speed in Auxerre

Auxerre is a nice town in Burgundy with a medieval bit plus Cathedral, and apparently, at least one wind speed meter (anemometer!). This time we will use Lycos.

pscrape -u"weather.lycos.com/?q=Auxerre%2C+France" -e"Wind Speed.*(\d+)\D+mph"

To format the output we could use the following:

pscrape -u"weather.lycos.com/?q=Auxerre%2C+France" -e"Wind Speed.*(\d+)\D+mph" -f"The wind speed in Auxerre is \$1mph"

Here, \$1 refers to the first Regular Expression buffer (which in this case is (\d+) ), it results in the contents of the buffer being inserted into the output string at this position, the result of the above should look something like the following:

The wind speed in Auxerre is 7mph