| Small perl script that grabs the current weather map from www.intellicast.com and saves in in a directory based on the date. Also auto-saves a scaled-down version of the image, for faster animations or quicker viewing on my wireless link. Designed to be called from cron every 1/2 hour (when intellicast updates their page). It could be modified to grab any piece of data off of any web page fairly easily, such as a favorite comic strip... The script sets the referrer correctly, so the problems with directly requesting the image file are avoided. :)
You will need to modify the URL variable(s) some if you don't want the Chicago-area map. It should be fairly easy to figure out.
Also of interest will be my auto-animation generator that takes the image files in a given range and generates an animation of them. I'll need to write it first, however... ;)
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