weather.pl - Sample script to show the usage of the Weather::Com::Simple module
#> ./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. $>
**IMPORTANT** You first have to register at weather.com to get a partner id and a license key for free. Please visit their web site http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html. Then edit this script and fill in the data into the corresponding variables at the top of the script.
The sample script weather.pl asks you for a location name - either a city or a 'city, region' or 'city, country' combination. It then uses the Weather::Com::Simple 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).
Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>
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.
To install Weather::Com, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Weather::Com
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Weather::Com
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.