{"id":17399,"date":"2017-07-30T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T04:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17399"},"modified":"2017-07-30T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T04:37:18","slug":"show-tide-times-on-an-inky-phat-using-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17399","title":{"rendered":"Show tide times on an Inky pHAT using the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?resize=560%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?w=690&amp;ssl=1 690w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?resize=560%2C335&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?resize=260%2C156&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tides.png?resize=160%2C96&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London-based educator Giles Booth has taken an <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/inky-phat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inky pHAT <\/a>from Pimoroni and placed it on top of his Raspberry Pi. He&#8217;s then used screen-scraping software <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crummy.com\/software\/BeautifulSoup\/bs4\/doc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beautiful Soup<\/a>\u00a0to interrogate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MET office website<\/a>\u00a0and grab ride times. The script to do this is scheduled every morning and the output is then displayed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/inky-phat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inky pHAT<\/a>. Giles does point out that, being a screen-scraper based script, it is reliant on the MET office not changing their website in any way, so consider it a beta until he gets access to a more stable API. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2017\/07\/tides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read how he did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based educator Giles Booth has taken an Inky pHAT from Pimoroni and placed it on top of his Raspberry Pi. He&#8217;s then used screen-scraping software Beautiful Soup\u00a0to interrogate the MET office website\u00a0and grab ride times. The script to do this&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17399\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,39,68,49,51],"tags":[482,332],"class_list":["post-17399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-programming","category-science","category-software","category-tutorials","tag-tide-times","tag-weather"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Show tide times on an Inky pHAT using the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17399\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Show tide times on an Inky pHAT using the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London-based educator Giles Booth has taken an Inky pHAT from Pimoroni and placed it on top of his Raspberry Pi. 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