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. 🍇🌳🍐🍑🍎🍒

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

What does it do?

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:

download Weather_Scraping.zip from Releases

or copy what's inside the dist folder
replace weather_data.xlsx with your own excel

or use it (skip the next 2 steps)
add the date (dd.mm.yyyy) after which you want to get data
update config.xlsx
- your excel name
- your sheet name
- the letter(s) header of the first (date) column
run weather_script.bat and wait for the console window to close
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.