I always loved to scrape websites in order to grab some data quickly in an elegant way. As a side-project, I reverse-engineered theweathernetwork.com because I wanted a clean json/xml or whatever-you-want-that-deliver-data in a friendly way for programmers. I know there is a RSS feed but it's too much verbose for me. If you look at the code, they are using abusively AJAX calls and some tricky javascript files inclusions. This was a cool challenge for me and I finally found the API.
The goal is to realize an ecosystem built around a data miner. The script will be executed on a regular basis, let's say, 24 times a day. The theweathernetwork's server returns a huge json string so we will have to setup a database to wrap up all those datas with well-chosen datatypes. This ecosystem could be a bunch of useful functions which perform data analysis.
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