[Surfraw-devel] surfraw 2.2.2 release candidate

[Ian Beckwith]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:06:48AM -0500, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> >         * wetandwild: switched to weather.com, as yahoo now uses
> > AJAX.
> 
> On the off-chance that we think that Yahoo! is going to stay AJAX for a 
> while, we can easily integrate the AJAX calls into a perl script. You 
> just have to investigate what XMLHttpRequests the page is making, and 
> then just mimic it - theoretically it shouldn't care whether or not the 
> data is coming from a browser running javascript or surfraw.

yes, we *could*, but switching to another site is much easier :)

It's the same data, yahoo licenses it from the weather channel, who
run weather.com.

Ian.

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