title: extracting Australia BOM weather data programmatically with R
body: <p>Here <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/</a> I can enter a substation number, say 009572; choose the variable (say Temperature) and its type (say Maximum). Clicking "get data" brings me to a page with a link "All years of data". Click it, and you got a zip file. I am aware of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053833/using-r-to-download-zipped-data-file-extract-and-import-data">this questions</a>, but here I don't have a direct link to a zip file. Can something be done to automate weather data extraction from the Australian Bureau Of Meteorology website with R? </p>