[PD] Help parsing HTML with [httpget]

[Philip Cunningham]

I managed to do this using Ruby.

http://philipcunningham.org/2011/03/05/university-york-weather-parser/

However, I'd still like to find a PD-only solution if anyone can help.

Best,
Philip

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Philip Cunningham
<pcunningham.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was working on a patch that visualises and sonifies weather data
> posted online in an HTML document. I was using [httpget] to grab the
> document and using [listsplit] and [symbol2list] to parse the
> necessary data. However, using this method, I will often get the error
> "error: unpack: type mismatch". I was wondering if someone could look
> at the patch and advise me of a cleaner way of doing this or showing
> me what I might be doing wrong? It works 70% the time. Initially, I
> was just increasing the frequency of the [httpget] to ensure that the
> data changes are captured but this method isn't very clean and would
> appreciate any corrections or feedback.
>
> Patch: http://uiu.me/6.pd
> This Weather: http://vimeo.com/16472933
> [httpget]: http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/SimpleWebclient
>
> Best wishes,
> Philip Cunningham
>
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