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  • 13-01-2016 11:45pm
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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    If it wasn't for the flooding this year, I may not have come across Water Level. I find it interesting, as it provides as close to live data as possible, on average, every 15 minutes. Has anyone ever seen this one before? I have time on my hands, so I'm working on a little project to gather data from the site and then figure out a way to provide some form of analysis, for future events.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    I presume you'll be using the API?


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    I'm beating around the bush somewhat by using https://waterlevel.ie/last/02/. It provides the latest data, without having to traverse the site and downloading files.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Does that have information you can't get through the API?


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    It's essentially all the same data all the way back to December 2011.


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    dreinzy
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    Let us know how you get on


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    h57xiucj2z946q
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    Itzy wrote: »
    I'm beating around the bush somewhat by using https://waterlevel.ie/last/02/. It provides the latest data, without having to traverse the site and downloading files.

    That is taking the long route to be honest. This route, you need to write a html scraper. They could change their page layout/structure at any time without notice, potentially breaking your scraper.

    The API provides json and csv data which in my opinion is more suitable to use.


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Downloading data in csv data would be much easier and I'll be making use of it this weekend.


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    snowstreams
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    L.Jenkins wrote: »
    It's essentially all the same data all the way back to December 2011.

    Where is the data that goes back to 2011?
    I could only find csv files that go back 5 weeks?
    Although Im only interested in temperature because I swim in some of the rivers regularly.


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    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    snowstreams wrote: »
    Where is the data that goes back to 2011?
    I could only find csv files that go back 5 weeks?
    Although Im only interested in temperature because I swim in some of the rivers regularly.

    http://waterlevel.ie/last/02/ It doesn't give water temperatures though.


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