*24 Jan 2015* <div class="posthaven-post-body"> Here's a little script to get the latest earthquakes worldwide (1 hour). Sorry, Ruby purists, for not using RSS 2.0 and hpricot for a cleaner extraction of the coordinates, but my xcode installation is messed up and i can't build any gems ;) require 'rss/1.0' require 'rss/2.0' require 'rss/atom' require 'open-uri' require 'cgi' source = "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/1hour-M1.xml" \# url or local filecontent = "" \# raw content of rss feed will be loaded here open(source) do \|s\| content = s.read end rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false) rss.items.each do \|item\| data = item.summary.to_s \# Extract raw info data = data.scan( /alt\\\\quot\\(\[^\>\]\*)W\\quot\\/).last.first \# Remove html escaping data = CGI.unescapeHTML(data).gsub("\&#176;N", "").gsub("\&#176;", "") \# Convert into coords lat = data.split(' ')\[0\] lon = data.split(' ')\[1\] \# Print it print item.updated.content, " ", item.title.content, " ", lat, " ", lon, "\n" end Next step: Show this on a map :D </div> [[tags/software_development|software_development]] [[tags/tips|tips]]