My pre-holiday newsletter
To make the most of the run-up to our holiday I knocked together a simple newsletter that aggregates various sources of information.
So, the weather information I’m pulling from Google RSS feeds
(eg: http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Portland,Oregon).
Photos of the area, I’m pulling from Flickr – for example,
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=Oregon,Landscape
News feeds are being pulled from a variety of sources – one, for example, is the The Montana Standard (RSS for the local area news at http://www.mtstandard.com/?rss=area).
And, of grim fascination, the exchange rate for Sterling to the Dollar is being scraped from a simple Google query.
The whole lot is compiled using a cron job once a day, and a prettified email including a dynamically generated countdown image is sent to me and my partner, Helen. The finished thing looks something like this:
