NAME

Weather::TW - Fetch Taiwan weather data from ¤¤¥¡®ð¶H§½

SYNOPSIS

use Weather::TW;
my $weather = new Weather::TW;
my $xml = $weather->area('Taipei')->xml;
# currently only xml is supported

foreach my $area ($weather->area_en){
  my $xml = $weather->area($area)->xml
  print $xml;
}

use utf8;
$xml = $weather->area('¥x¥_¥«')->xml;
# Chinese also works!

DESCRIPTION

This module parse data from http://www.cwb.gov.tw/ (¤¤¥¡®ð¶H§½), and generates xml data. In future it may support json and other formats as well.

METHODS

new

Create a new Weather::TW object.

area('$area_name')

City name can be either Chinese or English. The returned value is $self so you can use it for cascading.

$xmlstr = $weather->area('Taipei City')->to_XML;

The available area names are:

台北市         Taipei City
新北市         New Taipei City
台中市         Taichung City
台南市         Tainan City
高雄市         Kaohsiung City
基隆北海岸     Keelung North Coast
桃園           Taoyuan
新竹           Hsinchu
苗栗           Miaoli
彰化           Changhua
南投           Nantou
雲林           Yunlin
嘉義           Chiayi
屏東           Pingtung
恆春半島       Hengchun Peninsula
宜蘭           Yilan
花蓮           Hualien
台東           Taitung
澎湖           Penghu
金門           Kinmen
馬祖           Matsu
area_zh

Return area names in Chinese.

@names = $weather->area_zh;
area_en

Return area names in English.

@names = $weather->area_en;
xml

Return data as xml

json

Return data as json

yaml

Return data as yaml

SEE ALSO

https://github.com/dryman/Weather-TW

and

XML::Smart

AUTHOR

dryman, <idryman@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011 by dryman

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.