Weather from the Commandline by Igor Chubin

[drmike]

I find myself looking at weather sites too often.  Part of work and need to.


Websites for weather are various states of bloat, plugins and  heavy to deal with.  I always have a slew of terminal windows open... so...


This is a good new / recent project by @igor_chubin (on Twitter) https://twitter.com/igor_chubin:


curl http://wttr.in/90210

curl http://wttr.in/seattle



For now it only outputs non US values (Celcius and km/h).   US-ificiation is coming soon.


Long live terminal friendly things like this!


PS: It works in browser also:


http://wttr.in/manisa


Code for the project: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

 

[MannDude]

Oh, that's awesome.

 

[drmike]

@MannDude It will help you for now to become a good world citizen and adapt to Celcius

 

[MannDude]

Nah, I like my weather and measurements made in freedom units.

 

[GM2015]

It needs curl user-agent to work though.


My curlrc file is set to  Windows firefox to avoid website 403s most of the time. If you curl it with non-curl useragent, you get html source.


user@debian:/dev/null$ pc curl -L -A "curl 666 satanic edition" wttr.in/washington
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
|DNS-request| wttr.in
|R-chain|-<>--<><>-OK
|DNS-response| wttr.in is ..
|R-chain|-<>--<--timeout
|R-chain|-<>--<><>-OK
Weather for City: Washington, United States of America

    \  /       Partly Cloudy
  _ /"".-.     17 °C         
    \_(   ).   ↑ 24 km/h     
    /(___(__)  16 km         
               0.0 mm        
                                                       long result

Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates


Well done to the man, programmers always amaze with their achievements.

 

[drmike]

Pretty nifty.... of you to have curl setting browser.. Indeed common problem getting blocked due to such for me on downloads.


@igor_chubin is active with this project, so I am expecting more goodies

 

[Licensecart]

That's awesome