What do I do with my weather stuff now?

It started with me wanting to know how to code with R. R is about handling and graphing data, and I didn't really have data of my own. So, what I did was find a source I liked for weather and started putting it into a MySQL database.

That source was Google, specifically the XML used for weather in the soon-to-be-closed iGoogle.

Here's that code.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# $Id: hpsetdisp.pl 11 2006-03-22 01:21:03Z yaakov $

# hpsetdisp.pl
# Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses
# HP's control language to set the ready message on the
# LCD display.  Takes an IP address and message on the
# command line. My favorite message is "INSERT COIN".
# Keep in mind the limitations of the display when composing
# your clever verbiage.
#
# THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
# THE AUTHOR CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EFFECTS OF THIS PROGRAM
# IF YOU ARE UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE ADVISABILITY OF USING IT, DO NOT!
#
# Yaakov (http://kovaya.com/ )
#
# Modified by Garrett Hoofman
# 10/18/2007
# http://www.visionsofafar.com

# Modified by David Jacoby
# 12/10/2008
# http://varlogrant.blogspot.com/

# Modified by David Jacoby, using notify-send and tweaking Unicode
# 09/08/2008
# http://varlogrant.blogspot.com/

# Modified by David Jacoby, moving from Google to NOAA
# 08/28/2012
# http://varlogrant.blogspot.com/


use strict ;
use warnings ;
use Modern::Perl ;
use DBI ;
use Getopt::Long ;
use IO::Interactive qw{ interactive } ;
use IO::Socket ;
use XML::DOM ;
use Data::Dumper ;

use lib '/home/jacoby/lib' ;
use MyDB 'db_connect' ;

use subs qw{  get_weather notify db_upload } ;

my $zip         = '' ;
my $interactive = '' ;
my $degree = '°' ; #the unicode, straight
   $degree = "\x{00b0}" ; #the unicode, specified
my $rdymsg      = "Ready" ;
my $curr_cond ;

GetOptions(
    'zipcode=s'   => \$zip ,
    ) ;

$zip !~ /\d/ and exit 0 ;
my %weather = get_weather ;
db_upload %weather ;

exit ;

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sub get_weather {
    my %output ;
    my $parser = XML::DOM::Parser->new() ;
    my $file   = 'http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=XXXXX&hl=en' ;
    #my $zip    = shift ;
    $zip =~ s{(\d{5})}{}mx ;
    $zip = $1 ;
    $file =~ s/XXXXX/$zip/mx ;
    my $doc = $parser->parsefile( $file ) ;
    exit if ! defined $doc ;
    $output{zip}        = $zip ;
    $output{city}       = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'city' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data');
    $output{temp_c}     = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'temp_c' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data');
    $output{temp_f}     = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'temp_f' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data');
    $output{humidity}   = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'humidity' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data');
    $output{wind}       = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'wind_condition' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data');
    $output{conditions} = $doc->getElementsByTagName( 'condition' )->item( 0 )
                        ->getAttribute('data') ;

    return %output ;
    }
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sub db_upload {
    my %cond = @_ ;
    my $dbh = db_connect() ;
    for my $k ( sort keys %cond ) {
        $cond{$k} = $dbh->quote( $cond{$k} ) ;
        }
    my $fields = join ',' , qw{
        city        conditions
        humidity    temp_c
        temp_f      wind
        zip
        } ;

    my $sql ;
    my $rows ;

    $sql = qq{
    INSERT INTO weather_data ( $fields ) VALUES (
        $cond{ city } ,
        $cond{ conditions } ,
        $cond{ humidity } ,
        $cond{ temp_c } ,
        $cond{ temp_f } ,
        $cond{ wind } ,
        $cond{ zip }
        ) } ;
    #$rows = $dbh->do( $sql ) or croak $dbh->errstr;

    $sql = qq{
    INSERT INTO weather ( $fields ) VALUES (
        $cond{ city } ,
        $cond{ conditions } ,
        $cond{ humidity } ,
        $cond{ temp_c } ,
        $cond{ temp_f } ,
        $cond{ wind } ,
        $cond{ zip }
        ) } ;
    $rows = $dbh->do( $sql ) or croak $dbh->errstr;

    return ;
    }
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Problem is, Google knows I've been grabbing weather data every 10 minutes and has blocked me.

While I fill in all these, I am not pulling in weather data from multiple cities, so I can hardcode city and zip, and I couldjust drop conditions and wind. All I'm really watching is temp_f, and it's a simple conversion to get temp_c if I wanted it.

I have code that pulls from NOAA. Think I'll try to bring that in here.