BBC Weather Data
October 10, 2008
The BBC is one of the largest news sites on the internet and it’s weather forecasts are used by millions of people… but getting to the data itself isn’t easy!
The data source for BBC Weather is the UK Government Met Office (which will be covered in a future post). It is possible to access an RSS feed of the data. But according to the terms of use this is for personal use only and any use of BBC data content must include a link back to the BBC.
So in conclusion, the BBC site is useful as a full website or if you’d like an RSS feed of the data (which of course could be imbedded in your website, but accessing raw data itself is not possible at the moment.
