New BoM website has rolled out (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Tau@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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I don't like it, it's another exercise in taking a functional website and 'modernising' it by making it look like a mobile app (i.e. the make it look attractive to kindergarten kids school of design).

For my own use cases it's made it more annoying to get to the 7 day Canberra forecast, made the local radar harder to see, and I'm not noticing a link to the written ACT region forecast which I will want to look at in winter.

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Sigh, time to rewrite my scraper so I can have just the facts in my top panel again. Last one got like 5 years I think, hopefully they're not going to up the pace...

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

https://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml

Just use one of their feeds. Why on earth would you mess around with scraping the web UI?

[-] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Why not just pull the data from their ftp or something downstream like openmeteo?

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You shouldn't scrape a web page when they have their own free API

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