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So our regex will be like this: RegExp = (?siU) tag in the original XML, but what's. Below is an example response: GB įrom the XML, here are the values we need to get: Now let's inspect our XML data and see how we can capture them.
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Mond has 5 data: temperature unit, location, temperature, weather condition and icons.
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Below are the measure Mond has that retrieves data from the WebParser's regex: Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll Url = StringIndex = 1 Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll Url = StringIndex = 2 Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll Url = StringIndex = 3 Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll Url = StringIndex = 4 Substitute = #Conditions# Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll Url = StringIndex = 5 Take a deep breath and let's dive in.īefore we start, let's take a look at what data Mond needs. Now we have reached the real deal, the almighty Regex battlefield. Learn more about Rainmeter's variables here and OpenWeatherMap's API here.Īlso note I'm using XML format as denoted at mode=xml in the Url. As you can see, I've reused the variables for the location id and temperature unit as the API parameters. Replace with your API key (Make sure to remove it before sharing your code to others). Looking at the code, the url is deprecated, so we need to change that. Learn more about WebParser in the official tutorial. The Url key is our API endpoint, RegExp is our regex to be match on our response data, which may be in the form of JSON or XML (Depends on what the service provides). Changing the API Endpointįor the Mond weather skin, in Weather.ini, here's the issue (Most other weather skins has this too): Measure = Plugin Plugin = WebParser.dll UpdateRate = 900 Url = #Location#?cc=*&unit=#Unit# RegExp = "(?siU).*(.*).*(.*).*.*(.*).*(.*).*(.*)"Įvery weather skin will almost always pull data through the WebParser measure. Note: I'm using the OpenWeatherMap as the API and the Mond weather skin as our victim example. The instructions below will be skin agnostic, but since different weather skins may need different data, you may need to do some extra tweaks. Someone who has your API key may randomly use it and easily hit the API request limit. Once you acquired your API key, hop on to the next step! Most weather API services require sign ups to acquire an API key, which is totally fair to prevent DDOS on their servers. Of course, you can choose any other services as you wish. There are a few weather API services out there with generous free tiers, such as OpenWeatherMap, Weatherbit, AccuWeather, and Meteomatics. Update : Dark Sky have been acquired by Apple and is shuting down its services by 1 July 2020 :( (Don't worry, I'll guide you through it)Īnd finally, I'll list what else that needs to be done because different skins have different ways of handling and displaying weather. Next, we will change to the skin's API endpoint and apply a new regex to it.
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It could be any weather API as long as it provides the information you need and of course, a reasonable request rate. We will start by looking for a new weather API. In any case, it is just the rule, we have no interest in a CPU-eating ongoing battle with Windows desktop management every few milliseconds to allow Rainmeter to break it.Before we get started, here's what you need to know about what we'll be doing in the next few minutes. This was a particular problem when the screen resolution was changed, or the active screen was changed from the internal one to an external on a laptop. I assume that Windows did this long ago to fix an issue where in a world of traditional windows apps, the only place you can "drag" from is the title bar, and so it was decided to make sure that the top of a window can never be moved to a point where you can't get at the title bar, and end up with a "stuck" window. Short of having a !Move bang in an OnRefreshAction in, you really can't have a skin that can live in any reliable way with any part off the top. If you turn off "Stay on screen" in Manage, you can certainly have skins that are partially off the left, right or bottom of the screen. You can manually set the WindowY coordinates in Manage to something like -50, and the skin will move and stay there, but the instant you move it with the mouse, even one pixel, Windows will snap it so that all of it is below the top of the screen. Microsoft Windows will not allow you to drag any window (and at the end of the day a Rainmeter skin "is" a window) outside of the top of the screen.