Yahoo! Weather Module

As you may already know, I wrote 3 Google Gadgets for a year as follows.

  1. Yahoo! Weather
  2. Ping-o-Matic
  3. Overture Keyword Selector

At that time, all these gadgets are hosted at and it works for a year without problem. Now, Google Gadgets do not recommend to host gadgets at Google Base anymore because we have . As a result, hosting gadgets would be easier than ever but existing users must change its URL manually. To make my gadgets to continue working properly, I registered a new project at Google Code. It is named .

Yahoo! Weather Module

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Yahoo! Weather Module for Google Homepage is my first module for displaying weather information provided by The Weather Channel. Anyway, Google already published Weather Module integrated as overlay on . Unfortunately, the weather data are not available for cities outside U.S., e.g., Bangkok. That’s why I have to find new sources. Even though The Weather Channel has data around the world, it is not easy to use formatted data. does as a proxy to provide the data in well-form RSS format so other tools, e.g., , could query the raw data correctly.