hornflakes / cpp-weather-scraping

Weather web scraping script for my dad, but in C++🌦💨🍃

fast-weather-scraping

This repo contains a weather web scraping C++ script (code and .bat) I made for my dad.

He records and analyzes weather data for our orchard. 🍇🌳🍐🍑🍎🍒

Original Python version repo 🐍

This C++ version is also an attempt at adopting (dys)functional programming principles.

What does it do?

• extracts weather data from freemeteo.ro
• exports the data into Excel

Setup

Make sure the excel files are in the same folder from which you run the script (be it .exe or .bat).

Dev:

       I used MinGW64 and MSYS2.

       Install packages: curl gumbo xlnt

       Compile to .exe: g++ -o weather_script main.cc -lcurl -lgumbo -lxlnt

       or use your preferred build system

User:

1. download Weather_Scraping.zip from Releases

   or copy what's inside the dist folder

2. replace weather_data.xlsx with your own excel

   or use it (skip the next 2 steps)

3. add the date (dd.mm.yyyy) after which you want to get data

4. update config.xlsx

   • your excel name
   • your sheet name
   • the letter(s) header of the first (date) column

5. run weather_script.bat and wait for the console window to close

6. PROFIT 📈📈📈

The CA certificate for the data request can expire. In that case, you can replace it.

The certificate is in the certs folder. You can download certificates here.