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BBC Weather

by: sadler (community developer)

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created:05/20/08
popularity rank:7/25
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3 day forecast for UK postcodes and towns, from the BBC Weather feeds, via Yahoo Pipes. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml and enter your postcode - then look for you area's weather id on the end of the URL - ends with id=<weather id>. Enter this number into the configuration widget.

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Comments:

  • doctor_regtools

    January 28, 2010

    Thanks for the update - sadly I don't have a flash development environment so can't help. I'm using the yahoo weather widget instead for now.

  • sadler

    January 26, 2010

    Sorry for the delay, I am afraid that I do not have access to a Flash development environment at the moment to update this widget, I would be prepared to give the code to someone who does - but there is actually not much to it. BBC relaunched their weather feeds a while back, which means that new users will not be able to get this to work, existing users should be ok as BBC redirected all old id's to new URLs.

  • doctor_regtools

    January 26, 2010

    Does anyone know how to contact the author (sadler) to see if it's possible to get this widget fixed? I'm very keen to have a weather widget but this one doesn't work right at the mo, and the weather channel widget doesn't seem to work for the UK. Thank you

  • doctor_regtools

    January 26, 2010

    Thanks Evsdd - that really helped. The instructions need updating - and as you said, this widget doesn't work properly any more

  • CoolHandLuke

    January 13, 2010

    Thanks Evsdd. I think the developer lives somewhere without fog.

  • Evsdd

    January 8, 2010

    The alternative BBC URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/mobile/index.shtml worked for me. The widget doesn't seem to support all of the weather icons now in use though ('Light snow showers' and 'foggy' appear as blanks - 'sunny' and 'cloudy' work).

  • pjogden

    December 26, 2009

    Looks like the BBC website has changed and the widget no longer works - is their a fix on the way?

  • estherwakeman

    December 25, 2009

    The URL doesn't give an ID number at all. I am in the UK.

  • weaselboy

    November 10, 2008

    Hmm seems to have stopped working at the weekend :( Maybe the BBC have changed something?

  • jcornaglia

    May 22, 2008

    Thanks in advance

  • sadler

    May 22, 2008

    Ignore my reply - I can see that you provided the URL which is for Paris. I will see if I can get a change made to support the world= replies. This will allow the widget to support non-UK cities.

  • sadler

    May 22, 2008

    what city did you try? - i have really only tested it to work with UK cities/postcodes - I can try and do an extension to allow the 'world wide' forecasts to work.

  • jcornaglia

    May 22, 2008

    Hi, I have just try to use this widget, but when I got to this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml and I search my city... the url reply is : http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0040 and not id= ?

  • squirrellypoo

    May 21, 2008

    hooray! thanks for this - the other weather widget's UK forecasts were terribly inaccurate.