Geeklets

Hi,

How do I change the city (Paris) and farenheit to celcius? I tried changing http://weather.yahoo.com/france/ile-de-france/paris-615702/ in the code but nothing come up.

Thanks

Hello, I am using this set of geeklets, but the weather icon doesn't stay updated with the proper graphic for the weather. When it first loads after install, it shows up properly as "light snow" (with clouds and snow because of the weather today in Illinois).... However, after a few minutes it changes to partly cloudy (with a sun peeking behind the clouds). I have not changed the file path in Geektool or modified really anything.

The URL for the graphic is still: "file://localhost/tmp/weather.png". Refresh every 60 seconds. "Pick random image in directory" is not checked.

I've updated the weather to my local area and the text forecast shows up properly.

Here is the setting for the forecast:

curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.html http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/illinois/rockford-12784473/; curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png $(grep "div class="forecast-icon" style="background:url" /tmp/weather.html| awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }');for NUM in $(grep -n ".*n" /tmp/weather.html|cut -d":" -f1); do TARGET=$((NUM+1)) ; sed -n "$NUM"p /tmp/weather.html|sed 's|||g'|sed 's|||g'| sed 's/^[t]*//'; sed -n "$TARGET"p /tmp/weather.html ; done

How to fix?

I'm in Swindon, in the UK, I changed the URL, but it doesn't work! Please help!

I love this weather geeklet . But I cannot get the weather to show Celsius in Canada. the Canadian Yahoo uses ca.weather.yahoo.com to display Celsius. this does not work with the script. omitting the ca. displays the weather correctly but with Fahrenheit.

Thanks.

Hi, I love this geeklet, but I get the html codes appearing in the weather forecast. How can that be modified so just the weather information appears?

Thanks.

Hi, how can I change the language to portuguese and remove the [/li]'s ?

Sadly, another tip.

This is not meant to be a flame, but constructive criticism. This website is trying to do the community a service. I thank them.

However, the code authors and readers, in most cases, aren't aware that some of the code displayed is being mangled by this website's design. In the code display, less than signs or left angle brackets can't be used at all on this website and backslashes have to be double-backslashed to even show up as a single backslash. The designers of this website are 'apparently unaware' that they should be using some sort of 'tag' mechanism to display 'literal' 'code' 'examples' 'preformatted' so as to show us the unabridged code in the comments or elsewhere the author may want to place it on the website's webpages. I said the website designer are 'apparently unaware' because there is no prominent warning on each webpage about how inaccurate the displayed code may be.

So despite what I mentioned about copying and pasteing for accuracy, don't do it on this website, until the designers fix this webpage flaw. You can't be sure you are getting all the code unless you compare it to what is in the downloaded geeklet. You are better off just using the supplied geeklets that you can download, adapt, and implement.

how can I modify this code so that I can have more than one city? I tried to change some stuff but I dont know enough to have it work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Best weather display geeklet out there.

to find your city's code, go to weather.yahoo.com, and copy the numbers after your state and city. it should be 8 digits. great job on the .glets!

Here is the code, modified to remove the unwanted characters from being displayed, also replace

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/nevada/las-vegas-2436704/ with your city's link, you can get it by looking at yahoo weather:

curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.html http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/nevada/las-vegas-2436704/;

curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png $(grep "div class="forecast-icon" style="background:url" /tmp/weather.html| awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }');

LINE=$(grep -n ".*n" /tmp/weather.html|cut -d":" -f1);

FIRST=1

for NUM in $LINE;

do TARGET=$((NUM+1)) ;

if [ $FIRST -eq 1 ]; then

sed -n "$NUM"p /tmp/weather.html | sed 's|Detailed Local ForecastHow to Read This||g' | sed 's|||g' | sed 's/^[tnn]*//';

FIRST=$((FIRST+1));

else

sed -n "$NUM"p /tmp/weather.html | sed 's|||g' | sed 's|||g' | sed 's/^[t]*//';

fi

sed -n "$TARGET"p /tmp/weather.html ;

done

@drwho Your code didn't seem to work, after copying and pasting it displayed nothing.

I decided to take a quick look at the code and coded my own fix, albeit it doesn't do it in the most efficient way, it gets the job done.  Copy and paste the following code to remove the extra html tags (and obviously change the URL to your cities URL):

curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.html http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/san-luis-obispo-12796844/; curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png $(grep "div class="forecast-icon" style="background:url" /tmp/weather.html| awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }');for NUM in $(grep -n ".*n" /tmp/weather.html|cut -d":" -f1); do TARGET=$((NUM+1)) ; sed -n "$NUM"p /tmp/weather.html|sed 's|Detailed Local ForecastHow to Read This||g'|sed 's|||g'|sed 's|||g'|sed 's|||g'| sed 's/^[t]*//'; sed -n "$TARGET"p /tmp/weather.html ; done

 

Thanks you so much, i had no problems, i followed the directions and poof i have a picture of my weather on my desktop, now i never have to go outside again. but really thanks for the great tool.

No matter what I do it will not show, if I paste the original code it has extra html code shown. Anyone have this working without the extra code?

very nice