Current Weather w/ description of conditions

Posted in Weather by icecold25 812 days ago

This is a pretty simple geeklet that gets weather info from Yahoo and spits out a verbal description (Partly Cloudy, Light Rain, etc.) along with the outside current temperature. It's a straight shell script, really useful if you like knowing how it feels, not just a number for temperature.

USIN0707 is the zip, find your relevant zip on yahoo u is for units. Change to f for Fahrenheit.

...om/forecastrss?p=USIN0707&u=c" | grep -E...

Geeklet files to download

CurrentWeather.glet

Comments

edtheuniquegeek 662 days ago

And how does one find their zip on Yahoo. Sorry, but I'm not too familiar with using Yahoo's weather.

edtheuniquegeek 662 days ago

Never mind. I found my zip but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I was able to get the output in terminal but it would not display in GeekTool, even after playing around with the fonts (thinking the color was washed out by my wallpaper).

ryjacs 652 days ago

I can not change Celsius to Fahrenheit. Need some help.

walkenppc 631 days ago

You have to change the letters in one more part.

Change this:

| grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C

to this:

| grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F

dindin 381 days ago

love this little geeklet! it's so simple, thanks :)

pjiffy 150 days ago

I know the weather info from Yahoo is in the url but I can't seem to get it to work with a UK setting. The full url Yahoo gives me is http://uk.weather.yahoo.com/scotland/lothian/edinburgh-19344/

I've tried just the number, number and city, number city and region etc. I also tried the number preceded with UK, but nothing. Any advice? I'm trying for a fairly uncluttered Zen look to my desktop and the uncluttered look of this appeals.

hantaofly 138 days ago

try the www.weather.com instead of the weather.yahoo for the url~it works for me, Good Luck