bom-scraper

A simple web scraper to fetch real time weather observations in Australia

Installation

npm install bom-scraper --save

Usage

var BomScraper = require('bom-scraper');
var bom = new BomScraper();

var state = 'nsw'; // i.e. nsw|vic|qld|wa|tas|act|nt|sa
bom.fetchCurrentObsFor(state).then(function(response){
	res.send(response);
}).catch(function(error){
	res.send(error);
});

Return Object

The object returned by a call to fetchCurrentObsFor(state) consists of current weather observations for a given NSW state. The return object consists of an array of location observation data for each weather region in the given state i.e. for NSW this could look like:

{  
	"tNR":[  
		{  
			"location":"Cape Byron",
			"datetime":"28/08:00pm",
			"temperature":"21.7", // i.e. degrees celsius
			"windDirection":"N",
			"windSpeed":"17" // i.e. km/hr
		},
		{  
			"location":"Casino",
			"datetime":"28/08:00pm",
			"temperature":"21.4",
			"windDirection":"ESE",
			"windSpeed":"11"
		},
		// etc
	],
	"tMNC":[  
		{  
			"location":"Dorrigo",
			"datetime":"28/09:00am",
			"temperature":"15.0",
			"windDirection":"CALM",
			"windSpeed":"0"
		},
		{  
			"location":"Forster",
			"datetime":"28/03:00pm",
			"temperature":"22.0",
			"windDirection":"ESE",
			"windSpeed":"17"
		},
		// etc
	],
	// etc
}

Where tNR is the Northern Rivers Region and tMNC is the Mid North Coast Region. To see the data that is available (for NSW) see Latest Weather Observations for New South Wales.

Warning

Use at your own risk. This scraper is dependent upon the structure of the BOM site remaining consistent. I can not guarantee that changes to the BOM site won't break this code. I will endeavor to keep this up to date but no guarantee can be provided. Feel free to submit an issue / PR on GitHub to help out.

Release History

• 1.0.0 Initial Release
• 1.0.1 Added setup code for unit tests
• 1.0.2 Wrote unit tests for fetchCurrentObsFor
• 1.0.3 Fixed documentation
• 1.0.4 Refactored to remove if else chain
• 1.0.5 Bump to remove eslint vulnerability