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cross-posted from: https://gekinzuku.com/post/394282

Lately I've been obsessed with moving everything that people typically use as widgets into my bashrc. Today I discovered wttr.in, which is an open source project on Github at https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

Usage is almost trivial. To get weather in your terminal, simply curl the URL with your city after the forward slash. If you live in New York City, use
curl 'https://wttr.in/New%20York'

Now, if that's too much bloat to have covering your precious terminal real estate, instead use
curl 'https://wttr.in/New%20York'?0?A?u which will truncate the curl to only today's weather.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Weird, I usually just get weather report on my speakers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Love a good weather report suite

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Heavy Weather

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you get more than three days?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O stepped into this a couples days ago looking for a weather info to waybar and found this python script with wttr ...with a couple tweaks and some documentation reading I got it to work really easily in Portuguese

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that I can change to https://pt.wttr.in/ and get the Portuguese site

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Saw that just after tweaking the script to get the pt-br entry of the json object so I didn't change to pt website

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also use this in conjuction with conky to get text weather on your desktop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To follow up on that, here are the official conky directions: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in#conky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There is also the weather command. Text only, but more detail and more days ahead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apparently, this needs the terminal to be at least 125 characters wide to display correctly. My terminal is typically narrower than that (110 by default in uncustomized Konsole, or 116 when I snap it to half my monitor width).

Is there a way to get it formatted for the traditional VT100 80-character width, or at least ≤110?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I forgot to get back to this. It looks like it's possible to get something that fits better with the ?2n option. See https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/151

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Partly cloudy looks like a bunny lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can't unsee it now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is one use case where I actually much prefer windows