Re: [dev] Text stream services?

The Conky folks are a good place to try for these kind of services.

http://conkyhardcore.com/

While the application itself is more for system monitoring, they are a
resourceful bunch that tap into a number of text information sources and
display that text on the root window of your desktop.

I've seen them display weather/forecast, Google Calender, rss feeds, etc...

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:08 AM, <mauricio.antunes_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Reading documentation for GNU gawkinet, I found interesting examples
> of publicly available data that can be retrieved in simple text format,
> one with stock market numbers and other with protein databases.
>
> (If you're interested, check for STOXPRED and PROTBASE at this
> documentation link.)
>
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/Some-Applications-and-Techniques.html
>
> I wonder if there are other services providing information in a format
> that's easy for script processing. Maybe: weather information, econometric
> data, GIS data etc. Do you know of any?
>
> Thanks for your toughts. Best,
>
> Maurício
>
>
>
>
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