I should like to set up an automated retrieval of meteo information for my nearest airports. For those acquainted with Unix/Linux, I thought of a cronjob, every five minutes or so, that performs a wget of a certain URL, or gets the data, the METAR for a beginning, in some other way. Preferrably without authentication, i.e. without providing a login+password combination; though it would not be insurmountable.
Any suggestions?
Most free aviation wx websites, and most Iphone/Ipad apps, get their data from that ADDS site and, as you say, they stop working regularly whenever ADDS changes the HTML.
Otherwise, it's as good as any other.
I have a semi-private site, designed for mobile use especially satphone use, which gets wx from ADDS (strips off especially the font= spec for the TAF string), and it also gets it from the Avbrief test URL as a backup.
As always, you need to check the date/time yourself. Some free wx sites have been known to deliver way out of date data. Very recently, I get a metar from ADDS which was an hour old, while Avbrief's was the current one.
Thank you Peter. The coding was less difficult than I thought, see some results below (the ICAO is missing from the first few lines, that was an error in my coding). The next step is to get them on the web, that should be even less hard.
