Weather::Underground::StationHistory 1.0.1

Weather::Underground::StationHistory is a Perl module with utility functions for dealing with weather station historical data from http://wunderground.com.

SYNOPSIS

use Weather::Underground::StationHistory qw{ :all };

use LWP::Simple;

print
strip_garbage_from_station_history(
get(
generate_single_day_station_history_url(
KILCHICA52,
2006,
10,
27,
)
)
);

This module provides a URL generator function for retrieving historical data for weather stations from Weather Underground (http://wunderground.com).

Additionally, a function to clean up the data retrieved from said URLs is provided. Nominally, the content retrieved from the URLs is in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format. If you enter these URLs into a web browser, the data does appear to be in that format.

However, the MIME type given for the data by the web server is text/html and the data contains < br > tags and HTML comments (though no < html >, < head >, or < body > tags that you would expect for an HTML document). Thus, if a user copies and pastes the data from the web browser, the