Reading XML data and display specific element value

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Hi. I am after reading the XML data from the following URL: https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml and display only the UV index value for a certain city, say “Sydney”

Anyone can help how can I achieve this?

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Have a look at the scrape sensor.

It should be able to do what you want

Or

'curl -k --silent "https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml" | sed -n '122p' | cut -c 12-14'

will work as a command line sensor, although it will break if any changes are made to the page

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Hi @muhammad.taimur did you ever get this to work for web scrape?

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DW i got it to work. If anyone else wants here is the code

  - platform: scrape
    resource: https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml
    name: UV Index Sydney ARPANSA
    select: "location > index"
    index: 15
    unit_of_measurement: "UV Index"
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Thanks @vijaykbhatia I never came back to this post. But your code also works for me:

sensor:
  - platform: scrape
    resource: https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml
    name: UV Index Sydney ARPANSA
    select: "location > index"
    index: 15
    unit_of_measurement: "UV Index"
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This also worked for me:

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: ARPANSA UV Melbourne
    resource: https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml
    state_class: measurement
    unique_id: arpansa_uv_melbourne
    value_template: "{{ value_json.stations.location[12].index }}"
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Anyone have this die recently? The xml file now returns an error for me.

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Works for me via RESTful request. Melbourne location moved to 11 from 12. I also unit_of_measurement: "UV Index" might be helpful for integration with other things (i.e. AWTRIX display for UV/humidity blueprint)

sensors.yaml partial

- platform: rest
  name: ARPANSA Melbourne UV Index 
  resource: https://uvdata.arpansa.gov.au/xml/uvvalues.xml
  state_class: measurement
  unique_id: arpansa_melbourne_uv_index
  unit_of_measurement: "UV Index"
  value_template: "{{ value_json.stations.location[11].index }}"