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Getting weather via your command line

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  telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com

and for the automated, try this:

(echo "open rainmaker.wunderground.com";sleep 1;echo "\r";sleep 1;echo "nyc";sleep 1;echo "x";) | telnet

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/metar

Using powershell:

PS> Get-Weather

gives:

Location : Secret, Location (ABCD) 12-34N 123-45W 85M Time : Oct 18, 2012 - 02:30 AM EDT / 2012.10.18 0630 UTC Wind : from the SE (140 degrees) at 9 MPH (8 KT):0 Visibility : greater than 7 mile(s):0 SkyConditions : mostly cloudy Temperature : 50 F (10 C) DewPoint : 46 F (8 C) RelativeHumidity : 87% Pressure : 29.18 in. Hg (0988 hPa) Status : Success

A while backed a hacked a little script to update the LCD display on old HP printers with the current weather: https://gist.github.com/832730

I doubt it works any more since I don't think that Google Weather API still exists, but it should work if you switch it to Yahoo or one of the others.

I ran across a little CLI called "weatherman" [1] that does this, though you need to input your location manually each time. The data comes from WeatherBug.com, but it seems to work well enough for my purposes.

1. http://darkhorse.nu/software/

I wrote a script a little while back that texts the weather to you every morning. It used google's unofficial weather api.

https://github.com/doctoboggan/Wake-up-to-the-Weather/blob/m...

That api is no more. For izulu, which also used that api, i switched to yahoo.

Here's a simpler version that doesn't require PHP or an API key. Only works on Plan 9, though, but you could probably port it.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/rc/bin/weather

It's part of plan9port already, for the record.

Must be a recent addition, it's not in my (~3 month old) installation of Plan 9 Port.

I'm not quite sure why it's so complicated. Their telnet actually has a UI state machine built in.

On any linux computer: nc rainmaker.wunderground.com 23

Sure, I've used the telnet version, but it's nice to say "weather ROC" and get weather.

Using windows: Go to window, open, stick your nose out, and you know the weather. Look up to sky to predict weather for next half day.

weatherspect: http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/

Well this was a pleasant surprise to find.

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