Yesterday I posted a popular article about using Invoke-WebRequest to get weather conditions. That function used the Yahoo web site but really only worked for US cities. So I also cleaned up and revised another set of advanced PowerShell functions (required PowerShell 3) that can retrieve weather information for probably any location on Earth. The…
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside
I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but it is downright Arctic here. So I thought I’d polish up my PowerShell function to get weather data. #requires -version 3.0 Function Get-MyWeather { <# .Synopsis Get the weather for a US zip code .Description This command will query the Yahoo weather service and return…
PowerShell Weather Module
I first wrote a Windows PowerShell function several years ago to retrieve weather information via Yahoo’s weather service. I’ve been itching to rewrite it and finally found some time over the weekend. Turns out it’s a good thing I did because the method I had been using to query the Yahoo web service has been…