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BOM denying any HTTP requests

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BOM is now denying any HTTP requests made using a method other than a web-browser. > Website notification of change Scheduled Release Date: 3 March 2021 A web application firewall...

adamhsparks

Alternatives to using BOM for data

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Queensland has a proper API that would allow us to access BOM data for point and even gridded data. * https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/about/overview/ * https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/about/data-products/ * https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/api-documentation/guide/ What say you, @HughParsonage and...

adamhsparks

Install the package in R-studio

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First of all, I would like to thank you for the amazing package. I tried to install it using the provided code at the homepage of the package, but it...

fadeh2013

Disable historical_weather()

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Disables `get_historical_weather()` with a reference to the BOM site and the discussion page. * Tests all contain `skip_on_cran()` anyway, and these still pass ``` withr::with_envvar(c(NOT_CRAN = "false"), devtools::test()) ── Skipped...

jonocarroll

examples should never run on CRAN

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CRAN apparently is now running examples that aren't supposed to be run: https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/donttest/bomrang.out Examples need to be used with `@examplesIf` or an `if { (resource_available) run_example() }` for all functions...

adamhsparks

Station list request throws `403: Forbidden`

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```r > get_historical_weather("040842", type = "max") Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection to 'http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_136.txt' In addition: Warning message: In file(con, "r") : cannot open URL 'http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_136.txt': HTTP...

jimjam-slam

Access to BOM weather grids?

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@adamhsparks and Team, Does the package provide access to BOM's interpolated **weather grids** (described here http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/maps.shtml)? I believe these are the grids also available for download at e.g. : Gridded...

mbacou

BoM water online

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Session Info ```r ``` BoM has an online portal to download water data, such as watercourse levels, storage volume, etc. It would be very useful to be able to query...

ghost

Best way for get-current_weather to handle station IDs?

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`get_current_weather()` currently accepts either a `station_name` (that is precisely and then fuzzy matched) or a `latlon` vector: ```r get_current_weather(station_name, strict = FALSE, latlon = NULL, emit_latlon_msg = TRUE) ``` I...

jimjam-slam

For the next release, let's make it 1.0, I'd like to break some stuff and standardise functionality across the package. No timeline on this. I've just spent a good chunk...

adamhsparks