Retrieving data from NWS URL

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Are you using the old API? NOAA has two APIs, a new one and an old one. I did some messing around with NOAA awhile back which might be able to get you started. See

Which weather binding to use

There are two APIs, an old one and a newer one. I can’t remember which on that address links to. For the curious, here is the code I have so far using the newer API. The problem is that the predicted precipitation comes in an indeterminate number of elements that need to be iterated through and the values extracted and summed to get the estimate for the full day. The data is XML (it’s government so of course it is) so the code to do that is going to be ugly as a Rule. But if it helps, here is…

Notice the significantly different URL I’m using there.

I recommend using Scripted Automation as you will have better tools available to you to parse out the complicated parts than XPath provides (unless you are some sort of XSLT guru in which case you can use the XSLT transformation).