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Anyone know of a way to post data from say a Weather Display export to a web page form?

The local news station here in Birmingham takes data from local weather watchers but the only method of exchanging data is manually entering it into the 4 fields on the website.

I searched the net but can’t really find any clear solutions…and I am by no means a web guru.

thanks
Chris

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ChrisV,
What’s the url and I’ll see if I can come up with something.

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Hey Greg, if you dont mind, sign up and James will send you the link in a day or so. You are somewhat local anyway so you could post data. He has data coming in from several other states so don’t think you are to far away.

URL to sign up is
http://www.theweathercompany.com/owwsignup.html

ABC 33/40 weather website is
http://www.abc3340.com/weather/

thanks
Chris

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hi
is that vis a cgi script?
i have seen some sample code to post data to a cgi input script, and so it could be done auto…

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Here is some of the source…looks like perl if I remember correctly.

I hate to publish the exact url because it is a member section and there isn’t any type of security or sign on. Just a private url to post data. I don’t think anyone here would abuse it but then again you never know.

I will email you the rest of it if you need it.

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Can you post a screen shot of the form (no url)? I’m thinking you could both login and populate the form automatically with a windows macro program like macro scheduler.

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Sure…no problem.


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The easiest way would be to setup your own web page but with the same form tags as on the local news station site. ie your web page would have the form tags posting to their web server. The form could then be automatically pre-populated with the html output tags from WD.

Julian

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I think I understand the concept of what you are saying. So a html file with the form fields or tags already filled with data from a nightly export from WD. I could probably figure this out on my on…I will give it a try.

I guess the only question I would have from here is…How would you then execute the submit?

btw Julian - Anxiously awaiting the new version of WDL. Thanks for the great add on.

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I guess the only question I would have from here is...How would you then execute the submit?
That would be the only snag - the submit button would still have to be pressed. Unless you were to put a bit of javascript in the page onload event to automatically submit the form. You could then use windows task schedular to call the page. It gets a little more complicated but still feasible.

Julian