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johnnymck/shippingforecast
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Shipping Forecast scraping library, pulling data from the BBC's shipping forecast page. Based on tnm/shipping-forecast

0.1.2(6y ago)016BSD-2-ClausePHP

Since Jul 28Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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ShippingForecast.php
====================

[](#shippingforecastphp)

A straight-forward shipping forecast API written in pure PHP which scrapes up-to-date info from the BBC shipping forecast webpage.

Source based on [Ted Nyman's shipping forecast project](https://github.com/tnm/shipping-forecast). Mega props to that guy! :)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`composer install johnnymck/shippingforecast`

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use ShippingForecast\ShippingForecast;

$forecast = new ShippingForecast();
$cromarty = $forecast->get('Cromarty'); // location names must be capitalised

echo $cromarty['time']; // eg,  'The general synopsis at 1800'...
print_r($cromarty['content']['warning']); // returns array of warnings (often empty, though not in wintertime 😅)
echo $cromarty['content']['visibility']; // eg, 'Good, occasionally poor'...
```

It's worth noting that `ShippingForecast::get($foo)` and `ShippingForecast::getAll()` both yeild an assoc array containing `['time']`, the time as a string when last updated by the BBC, and `['content']` which contains the forecast-proper, including a `['warning']` array to yeild any prevalent warning information. See `examples/` for further information.

Fun Stuff!
----------

[](#fun-stuff)

Running `php readforecast.php` in the root of the application and piping the output into a text-to-speech application (such as `say` on Macintosh) will read the latest forecast update without you having to bother tuning your wireless sets to BBC R4, 3 times a day. What a time to be alive!

`./forecast [Capitalised zone name here]` will return the forecast in plaintext in your desired zone

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~477 days

Total

2

Last Release

2369d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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