sarahraqueld/cli-weather

CLI Weather

This uses the Wunderground API to export icons representing 4 days worth of weather. It's built in ruby. It looks something like:

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/djcp/cli-weather.git
$ cd cli-weather
$ bundle

Configuration

Create a .cli-weather.rc file in your $HOME directory. It should look something like:

city = Lynn
state = MA
api_key = <your wunderground API key>

Usage

I use a cron job to dump the icons out to a file named "~/.cli-weather-forecast" that I then use to customize my bash prompt. The command below will update it every 15 minutes.

  */15 * * * * source /home/djcp/.rvm/scripts/rvm && ruby /home/djcp/code/cli-weather/cli-weather.rb > /home/djcp/.cli-weather-forecast

And then in .bashrc:

  WEATHER=(< ~/.cli-weather-forecast)
  PS1="your current prompt but now with the ${WEATHER}"

##Legend ###Prefixes

Chance of: ~
Partly: -

###Complete List

Chance of Flurries: ~❅
Chance of Rain: ~☔
Chance of Sleet: ~❆
Chance of Snow: ~❆
Chance of Thunder Storms: ~☈
Clear: ☼
Cloudy: ☁
Flurries: ❆
Fog*: ♒
Hazy*: ♒
Mostly Cloudy: ☁
Mostly Sunny: ☀
Partly Cloudy: -☁
Partly Sunny: -☀
Rain*: ☔
Sleet: ❆
Snow: ❆
Sunny: ☼
Thunder Storms: ☈

*:Monospace fonts with good support for these characters, will turn the rain, fog, and haze characters into a graphics in your terminal.

Author

Dan Collis-Puro

License

MIT

sarahraqueld / cli-weather