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Avinash Raj
Asked: 2013-12-14 08:52:19 +0800 CST

Weather from terminal

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I want to find the current weather of a particular city or my location from terminal. Is there any command-line weather app?

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15 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Simply enter the following in a terminal:

    curl wttr.in

    And will get your location from /etc/timezone. Otherwise curl wttr.in/your_location. For example, for Tehran:

    curl wttr.in/tehran

    Which gives you:

    Sample output

    You can also compare two cities: 

    diff -Naur <(curl -s http://wttr.in/london ) <(curl -s http://wttr.in/new-york )

    Source code of developer is available on Github.

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  2. Search for your city at http://www.accuweather.com and replace the URL in the following script with the URL for your city:

    #!/bin/sh

URL='http://www.accuweather.com/en/de/berlin/10178/weather-forecast/178087'

wget -q -O- "$URL" | awk -F\' '/acm_RecentLocationsCarousel\.push/{print $2": "$16", "$12"°" }'| head -1

    Sample output:

    Berlin, Germany: Foggy, 1°
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  3. Here's a great semi-graphical command line utility written in Go:

    https://github.com/schachmat/wego/

    You'll need to install Go and setup some API stuff, but the instructions are there. Here's a sample pic:

    enter image description here

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  4. I have got one more way .

    Open your .bashrc file and then paste this code at the bottom

    weather(){ curl -s "http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}"|perl -ne '/<title>([^<]+)/&&printf "%s: ",$1;/<fcttext>([^<]+)/&&print $1,"\n"';}

    Then save & close your .bashrc file.

    now type bash to update the file.

    then type

    weather <location name>

    for example

    august@august-OEM:~$ weather guntur
December 14, 2013: Clear. High 31&amp;deg;C (87&amp;deg;F). Winds 0 kph North
December 15, 2013: Clear. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 10 kph NNW
December 16, 2013: Clear. High 31&amp;deg;C (87&amp;deg;F). Winds 10 kph North
December 17, 2013: Clear. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 7 kph ENE
December 18, 2013: Scattered Clouds. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 3 kph ENE
December 19, 2013: Scattered Clouds. High 29&amp;deg;C (84&amp;deg;F). Winds 3 kph ENE
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  5. ansiweather

    AnsiWeather is a Shell script for displaying the current weather conditions in your terminal, with support for ANSI colors and Unicode symbols. Weather data comes from the OpenWeatherMap free weather API.

    sudo apt-get install ansiweather
ansiweather -l London,GB -f 3
London forecast => Sat Jan 13: 7/2 °C ☔ - Sun Jan 14: 4/1 °C ☔ - Mon Jan 15: 9/6 °C ☔

    https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather

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  6. First you need to install the weather-util package, to do that just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

    sudo apt-get install weather-util

    You’ll need your local weather code.

    After installation you can run weather -i <code>. The code you get from the link above. For a list of available options, you can run weatherWeather info

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  7. Try using 

    telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com
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  8. also a program that comes pre-installed with ubuntu called inxi will give you all types of stats on your computer and it does a weather output.

    command: inxi --help

    command: inxi -w

            Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Clear Time: May 13, 10:52 AM CDT

    command: inxi -wxxx

         Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Clear Wind: From the SW at 13 MPH Humidity: 60%

       Pressure: 29.99 in (1016 mb) Heat Index: 84 F (29 C)
       Location: city (USA) Altitude: 185 m
       Time: May 13, 10:52 AM CDT (America/Chicago) Observation Time: May 13, 9:54 AM CDT
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  9. I have got one more way .

    Open your .bashrc file and then paste this code at the bottom

    test -f ~/.wttr.in || curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in
find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name .wttr.in -cmin +5 -exec curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in \;
head -7 ~/.wttr.in | tail -5
W(){ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name .wttr.in -cmin +5 -exec curl -sk wttr.in -o ~/.wttr.in \;; head -27 ~/.wttr.in; }

    Save & close your .bashrc file and run the following command to update bash:

    . .bashrc

    then type W upper case

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  10. For even shorter weather output openweathermap.org provides weather data in json format.

    The filds from the JSON can then be obtained with a JSON parser like jq i.e..

    I wrote a q&d weather-fetch script, wich gets the current temperature, icon and description of weather, then stores a unicode symbol corresponding to the icon and outputs it like

    ☂ 6°C

    I regularly update via cronjob and then use the output in my tray status.

    An API-key is needed for openweathermap - you may send 1000 requests free of charge per day.

    The JSON contains further fields, i.e. forecast data, wind etc. – you can parse them, too, if you want. A description of the API can be found at https://openweathermap.org/current#one .

    Unfortunatly some weather symbols are not represented in the Ubuntufont… feel free to adjust.

    Here's my script. Change location if you don't life in Hamburg,DE and replace dummy value with your API-key. Depends on curl and jq.

    #!/usr/bin/env sh
#☁☂☔❄❅❆☃ ☀☁☂⚡⚐☼⛅☇☈☾

#settings - adjust
APIKEY="DUMMY"
LAT="53.618814544576594"
LON="10.131139271164836"
#build query url
QUERY="https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat="$LAT"&lon="$LON"&appid="$APIKEY"&units=metric"
# write json to variable
WEATHER_JSON=$(curl -Ls "$QUERY")
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
  exit 0
fi
# get fields from xml via xmllint | xargs for trimming
# weather description
WEATHER_TEXT=$(jq -r '.weather | .[0] | .description' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | xargs);
WEATHER_ICON_CODE=$(jq -r '.weather | .[0] | .icon' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | xargs);
# temperature
WEATHER_TEMPERATURE=$(jq -r '.main | .temp' - <<<"$WEATHER_JSON" | cut -d '.' -f 1 | xargs);

# set $WEATHER_SYMBOL according to $WEATHER_TEXT
if   [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "01d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☼"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "01n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☾";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "02d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛅";elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "02n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "03d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "03n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "04d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "04n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☁";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "09d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☔"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "09n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☔";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "10d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☂"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "10n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="☂";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "11d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⚡"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "11n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⚡";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "13d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="❄"; elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "13n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="❄";
elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "50d" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛆";elif [ "$WEATHER_ICON_CODE" == "50n" ]; then WEATHER_SYMBOL="⛆";
# if unknown icon, set text instead of symbol
else WEATHER_SYMBOL="$WEATHER_TEXT";
fi
# output <symbol><space><temp-in-°C>
echo "$WEATHER_SYMBOL"" ""$WEATHER_TEMPERATURE""°C";
exit 0;

    EDIT 2022-07-09: Since tuxnet24.de does not provide weather anymore. I changed the provider to openweathermap. (this also involves json beeing parsed instead of xml in the former version) /EDIT

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