Render HTML with MP (1 Viewer)

[doug]

Hi,
Inspired by a plugin that displays weather from the BBC, I'm looking at developing a plugin to display weather from the Environment Canada website.

I don't have access to the underlying database or data they use, so from what I can see, the easiest thing for me to do is simply scrape a portion of the desired page (allowed by their terms of use) and display it in MP. Can MP render HTML or is there some plugin that does this? Or do I have to parse the HTML do extract the portion I want and then display in MP? Or perhaps is there an easier way to approach this.

Thanks,
Doug

 

[mbuzina]

Hi Doug

MP does not render HTML by itself - there are several Web Browser Plugins which use different browsers as addins. I would recommend scraping and parsing the html to display in a skin.

 

[Albert]

AW: Render HTML with MP

doug, MP2 already has a Weather plugin. Look at the code there. It has already a scraper and is extensible to use other scrapers as well.

 

[doug]

Thanks to both of you. I'll take a look at the code as soon as I can but that won't be until July...I've got my daughter to entertain, a triathlon to race, there's work...and, oh right, I have to teach myself C#! https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/images/smilies/smile.gif