Twitter bot weatherlisbon
This little bash script shows how to use curl, grep, tail, sed and perl one-liners in order to compose a bleeding-edge twitter bot.
This one returns daily weather forecasts for Lisbon city based on the BBC weather forecast rss feed.
This one returns daily weather forecasts for Lisbon city based on the BBC weather forecast rss feed.
1 2 #! /bin/sh 3 4 #Goto here 5 here=/home/guillaume/Personal 6 cd $here 7 8 #BBC Lisbon weather id 9 id=0048 10 11 #BBC weather RSS feed address 12 feed="http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/${id}.xml" 13 14 #City 15 city=lisbon 16 17 #temporary file 18 file="weather${city}" 19 20 #Weather twitter bot 21 twitbot=weatherlisbon:******* 22 23 #Timestamp the log file 24 echo .>> $file.log 25 date >> $file.log 26 27 #Read the RSS feed and filter it 28 curl $feed | grep 'title' | tail -n 1 | perl -wlne'm/title>(.*)<\/title/i && print $1' | sed -e "s/°//g" > $file.txt 29 30 #Read the forecast into a weather variable 31 read weather < $file.txt 32 33 #Twit the weather variable away 34 curl --basic --user $twitbot --data status="$weather" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >> $file.log
