[DISCONTINUED] OzPoll - Australian Pollen Forecast (Integration)

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Edit: 2025-11-05

  • Development, maintenance, and support for this integration have been discontinued.
  • I’ve also removed the integration from GitHub. I’d also encourage users to remove the integration from HA to stop traffic.
  • Although I’m not affiliated with the company behind the app, I encourage you to subscribe to their premium tier to help sustain the service (as I do).
  • My views have changed and I now discourage any unofficial pollen data retrieval methods, as excessive or unregulated traffic could degrade the service for other users who rely on it for their health and/or limit sustainability/growth of the novel service.
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Check this for more info about the icon templates: add icon or icon template to the sensors. · Issue #29 · danieldotnl/ha-multiscrape · GitHub

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HI. I also live in old lockdown melbourne and have tried out this scrape sensor. I set it up and it was working fine for about 4-5 days, but it stopped working…

The only error is
[custom_components.multiscrape.entity] Sensor Pollen fc1 was unable to extract data from HTML

I pretty much copied your config without any changes, so not sure if it is still working for you.

Anyway, no rush, just though you might want to know about it

Any thanks again for an awesome sensor.

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Hey happy lockdown! Yeah mine has broken too, thanks for letting me know.

I’ll take a look in a bit (I’m busy setting up a particulate matter sensor to complement it:) - definitely would like to have it running reliably for the season.

It’s possible the site might block ip’s that are hitting it up too much?

Cheers…

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Oh I see what’s happened now. They’ve removed the 6 day forecast from the page! So there’s nothing there to scrape… Hopefully something will return closer to the season?

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Thanks for the follow up… I guess we just have to wait until spring…

Thanks again.

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Just noticed that the ANU here in Canberra has a station, other than changing the url of the station are there any changes I need to make ??

Gaz

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I got an email from them confirming they don’t have a public API yet.

The sensor is broken at the moment because they are redeveloping their webpage before the season starts. They indicated they should have something juicy out soonish.

I think we’ll have to wait and see what the new page looks like.

Then I can prob help you check if one for Canberra can be set up.

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Actually I just checked the Canberra site and it still looks ok and may just work by changing the URL.

If not it is super easy to generate the required “select” via a browsers developer mode tools and I can give some pointers on that if needed…

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The scraper seems to be working as I seem to getting data from the ANU site in Canberra, there are entities for 6 forecast days and all are low as per what is on the site.

The dashboard not so much, it doesn’t look like what you posted above. I haven’t play around much with dashboards yet so will continue to poke at it.

BTW, there is a note in one of the news posts on the Canberra site that they will be continuing counts through winter.

Gaz

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I’ll tidy up the Lovelace card when they deploy the new Melbourne site and that may help you.

Hopefully the data for the different locations will be consistent so we can reuse/collaborate on development.

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Hi @obrien.craig maybe you can help raise support for the return of the 5 day forecast by commenting on this post/page?

I’m not clear if and when it is returning at this point. Thank you.

https://www.facebook.com/melbournepollen/posts/1999176443573899

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I have just updated to 2021.9.2 and am now getting ‘unknown’ for all the pollen entities.

It was working fine from the Canberra site just before the update and the data on the site is still available.

Any ideas ?

Gaz

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Thanks for taking a look.

The Melbourne site states that they will start again in October and I also noticed that there is an Android app but it does not support the data from Canberra.

Just noticed your edit at the top, no longer free is a bugger.

Gaz

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Issue is as per here.

Solution is post after…

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After upgrading to V5.5 of multiscrape it is working again.

Gaz

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@obrien.craig the above post may interest you. Cheers.

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Thanks for that @Mahko_Mahko I have set it up. Works well. I did see that they didn’t answer you question on facebook about if the 5 day forecast would now be a paid for feature. I guess that non-answer probably means it will be.

Thanks again.

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Hi - great work maintaining this - I find the pollen card very helpful.

I would love to scrape the thunderstorm asthma warning from the same page as well - I’ve tried (and failed) using the css selector in chrome to replicate what you’ve done but I’m out of my depth.

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thanks for trying. that looks similar to what I was doing

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