1 (edited by Steevo 2016-02-08 07:55:47)

Topic: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

It seems to be stuck on a date in 2012.
The same date that previews in channels  11/5/12.
I searched online and I don't find a reference to accuweather horoscopes, so maybe they discontinued that service.

http://chumby.com/guide/CB640030-02F6-1 … E0D/widget

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

The author of that widget actually works at Accuweather - I think you're right, that the feed is no longer available.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

I sent an inquiry to their sales address to ask if that was gone, but I have not received a response yet.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

Is that just taken from an RSS feed? There maybe more like that available, but the dev effort might not be worthwhile.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

The widget pulls data from:

http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/h … scopes.xml

The feed is there, it looks like it's just stale.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

Based on some googling, it appears that these horoscopes *might* have originated here: http://www.cqservices.com/Horoscopes , though it's possible they simply came from the same upstream source.

Note, however, that today's horoscope (2/8/16): http://www.cqservices.com/Horoscopes/De … D=2/8/2016

...matches the horoscopes on 11/13/14: http://www.cqservices.com/Horoscopes/De … 11/13/2014

...just shuffling which horoscopes go to which sign.

EDIT: Actually they reuse a lot, you can see some of the same horoscopes on 1/6/16, 11/13/14, 10/9/14, 1/6/14, 3/8/09, 12/25/10, 2/25/11, and 10/9/12.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

Duane wrote:

EDIT: Actually they reuse a lot, you can see some of the same horoscopes on 1/6/16, 11/13/14, 10/9/14, 1/6/14, 3/8/09, 12/25/10, 2/25/11, and 10/9/12.

Yeah, I have a friend who used to work on newspapers in the old, pre-electronic days. He says they'd shuffle the horoscopes around from sign to sign until they fit well from a typesetting point of view.

Re: Accuweather horoscope widget is not working

Duane wrote:

EDIT: Actually they reuse a lot, you can see some of the same horoscopes on 1/6/16, 11/13/14, 10/9/14, 1/6/14, 3/8/09, 12/25/10, 2/25/11, and 10/9/12.

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