Embed div with known ID on another site

[lubblig]

So I'm trying to build a website (for myself only, I won't be publishing it anywhere) and I want to embed a div from a weather site that contains the next five days of weather, but only that div (which has a known id), I do not want the rest of the website.

 

What I've tried so far is to use an iframe and link to the website and then add #weatherDivIWant at the end of the url, but I'm unable to get it to work. Probably because it doesn't work like that because it doesn't work in my browser either, it just links to the main site anyway...

 

But basically what I want is to be able to get just the contents of a div from another website and display it in a div/iframe on the site I'm building. How would I go about doing that?

 

Thanks

[ALwin]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14117763/how-do-you-put-only-a-certain-section-of-a-website-into-an-iframe

 

read the discussion on that link.

[lubblig]

Just now, ALwin said:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14117763/how-do-you-put-only-a-certain-section-of-a-website-into-an-iframe

 

read the discussion on that link.

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

[vorticalbox]

4 minutes ago, ALwin said:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14117763/how-do-you-put-only-a-certain-section-of-a-website-into-an-iframe

 

read the discussion on that link.

ew iframes. Though that probably is the easiest way.

 

i believe you can use JavaScript to get data from inside tags.

[ALwin]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

ew iframes. Though that probably is the easiest way.

 

i believe you can use JavaScript to get data from inside tags.

Well they talk about PHP and JavaScript solutions there too.  The best solution is for the target website to serve the information in the form of a service, otherwise it steps into a grey area if you try to take information like that from another site without their permission or knowledge.

 

An example is YouTube that offers an embed code that can be put in any other website.  The embed code they provide is a service that displays the embedded video on a third party site.

[prolemur]

Check if the weather website has an embed-able widget

[Toxicable]

There are loads of free to use Weather API's that you could get this data from and display it your own way, might be a bit more work but would be better than just using someone else's webpage

[lubblig]

19 hours ago, Toxicable said:

There are loads of free to use Weather API's that you could get this data from and display it your own way, might be a bit more work but would be better than just using someone else's webpage

This is what I ended up doing, was way easier than I thought, found a great little API that could retrieve weather information and it looks way better than just embedding part of someone else's website. Thanks!