topic Re: NOAA RSS feed download and join in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/noaa-rss-feed-download-and-join/m-p/549148#M42887 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>In the feed entries the 'geometry' is given as sets of UGC or FIPS6 boundary names, for each weather warning.&nbsp; You could read the XML with Requests, extract the records, generate geometry by (say) a Query on a feature service in ArcGIS Online or a local copy of the boundaries, then do a local overlay with your shapefile.</P><P></P><P>This is quite a mission for someone new to Python.</P><P></P><P>An alternative, if you have money to throw at this (licensing an extension), is creating a custom data format using the Data Interoperability extension - no coding but some configuration, based on reading RSS.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:49:18 GMT BruceHarold 2015-02-23T23:49:18Z NOAA RSS feed download and join https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/noaa-rss-feed-download-and-join/m-p/549147#M42886 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi everyone,</P><P></P><P>I'm trying to craft up a Python script that will download the XML files from this RSS Feed - <A href="http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/us.php?x=0" title="http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/us.php?x=0">http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/us.php?x=0</A> </P><P></P><P>After downloading them, I'd then like to join them with the April 2015 shapefile from NOAA - <A href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm" title="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm">AWIPS Map Database Catalog - Public Forecast Zones</A> </P><P></P><P>They have similar naming conventions so it should work. I'm new to Python so I don't really know where to begin. I've read about BeautifulSoup, Feedparser, Requests, etc. but I'm still confused.</P><P></P><P>I have IDLE, the arcpy library, Arc Desktop 10.2.2, and Python 2.7.5.</P><P></P><P>The main goal of this script would be so that I don't have to rely on the NOAA ArcGIS Online services for data. There are times when it is down but I still need geospatial watches &amp; warnings.</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance. Looking forward to help.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:48:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/noaa-rss-feed-download-and-join/m-p/549147#M42886 PhilipWelsh 2015-02-23T22:48:15Z Re: NOAA RSS feed download and join https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/noaa-rss-feed-download-and-join/m-p/549148#M42887 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>In the feed entries the 'geometry' is given as sets of UGC or FIPS6 boundary names, for each weather warning.&nbsp; You could read the XML with Requests, extract the records, generate geometry by (say) a Query on a feature service in ArcGIS Online or a local copy of the boundaries, then do a local overlay with your shapefile.</P><P></P><P>This is quite a mission for someone new to Python.</P><P></P><P>An alternative, if you have money to throw at this (licensing an extension), is creating a custom data format using the Data Interoperability extension - no coding but some configuration, based on reading RSS.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:49:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/noaa-rss-feed-download-and-join/m-p/549148#M42887 BruceHarold 2015-02-23T23:49:18Z