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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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