PowerShell can talk to web services, and there are some public web services that you can contact via internet. Here are two functions: Get-Airport gets all supported airports in a given country. Get-Weather then gets the current weather information:
#requires -Version 2 function Get-Airport { param($Country, $City='*') $webservice = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri 'http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL' $data = [xml]$webservice.GetCitiesByCountry($Country) $data.NewDataSet.Table | Where-Object { $_.City -like "*$City*" } } function Get-Weather { param($City, $Country='Germany') $webservice = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri 'http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL' $data = [xml]$webservice.GetWeather($City, $Country) $data.CurrentWeather }
Use it like this:
PS> Get-Airport -Country Bahamas Country City ------- ---- Bahamas Alice Town, Bimini Bahamas Georgetown, Exuma Bahamas Freeport, Grand Bahama Bahamas West End, Grand Bahama Bahamas Matthew Town, Inagua Bahamas Nassau Airport Bahamas Cockburn Town, San Salvador PS> Get-Weather -Country Bahamas -City 'Freeport, Grand Bahama' Location : Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, The (MYGF) 26-33N 078-42W 11M Time : Oct 23, 2015 - 11:00 AM EDT / 2015.10.23 1500 UTC Wind : from the ENE (070 degrees) at 17 MPH (15 KT):0 Visibility : greater than 7 mile(s):0 SkyConditions : partly cloudy Temperature : 80 F (27 C) DewPoint : 71 F (22 C) RelativeHumidity : 74% Pressure : 30.03 in. Hg (1016 hPa) Status : Success
