How to get the real time weather info

[Rajesh_Parameswaran]

Hi there, I'm looking to get the real time weather of a particular city, when the pincode for the same has been provided. Is there any way in VC++ 6.0 or any Internet API which I can use to get the same? Kindly share your comments on this. Thanks in Advance, Rajesh

[Stuart Dootson]

Look at WinInet[^] - that's a good starting point for HTML/HTTP interfacing. If the web-service you're going to use is written using SOAP, then gSOAP[^] may be more appropriate.

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[David Crow]

Where are you wanting to get this information from? To my knowledge, there is not a central location like there is with getting the current time.

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[Rajesh_Parameswaran]

Hi David, I've seen a gadget called 'Weather 1.0.0' which comes with Windows Vista - Side Bar. I hope the same can be done using VC++. But I've no clues on how to start with. This needs an internet connection to be active to update the weather information. If someone can provide some pointers on this, will help me in proceeding further to achieve the same. Thanks in Advance, Rajesh

[Rajesh_Parameswaran]

Hi Stuart / David, I got some information from google. "http://www.google.co.in/ig/api?weather=trivandrum,india" we can specify the city name and the country name in the weather and it will display the contents in XML format. I would like to know, how through programically using VC+ to write the XML contents to a file or even read the contents of the XML so as to extract the weather information. Kindly pass on your comments. Please let me know, if you have a better way to achieve the same. Thanks in Advance, Rajesh

[David Crow]

Maybe code.google.com has something you can use.

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[David Crow]

Rajesh_Parameswaran wrote:

If someone can provide some pointers on this, will help me in proceeding further to achieve the same.

See here.

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