Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Dan D.]

Why not just grab the current page by using curl or wget or similar tools 
to your home directory?

The mobile version of  underground has all the weather/forcast info on one 
page.  This makes it ideal for one of the grab tools.

Here is a nearby location to me, near the bottom is a text entry field
where one can put a zip code or location by name.  That will get the exact
url for your location for grabbing.

http://mobile.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=mobile&query=oakland,%20pa

A simple shell script would do it.



On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi Mr. Hart!
>
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:24:39 -0800
> Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes through
>> Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off the air. This script
>> is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go much ferther back. Can some1
>> please suggest an alternative commandline script for receiving current
>> conditions and forecasts? Thanks so much in advance
>
> There are several relevant hits here:
>
> * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+api&ia=web
>
> * https://metacpan.org/search?q=weather
>
> * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+command+line+script&ia=qa
>
> If you still need assistance to write some code to do that, then you can try
> hiring someone to do that. I am available for hire, and you can probably find
> others.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish
>
>> Hart
>>
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Janina Sajka]

Well, when it comes to that, the Weather Underground provides an API,
much of which is free to use:

https://www.programmableweb.com/api/weather-underground-wunderground#main-content

Dan D. writes:
> 
> Why not just grab the current page by using curl or wget or similar tools to
> your home directory?
> 
> The mobile version of  underground has all the weather/forcast info on one
> page.  This makes it ideal for one of the grab tools.
> 
> Here is a nearby location to me, near the bottom is a text entry field
> where one can put a zip code or location by name.  That will get the exact
> url for your location for grabbing.
> 
> http://mobile.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=mobile&query=oakland,%20pa
> 
> A simple shell script would do it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mr. Hart!
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:24:39 -0800
> > Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes through
> > > Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off the air. This script
> > > is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go much ferther back. Can some1
> > > please suggest an alternative commandline script for receiving current
> > > conditions and forecasts? Thanks so much in advance
> > 
> > There are several relevant hits here:
> > 
> > * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+api&ia=web
> > 
> > * https://metacpan.org/search?q=weather
> > 
> > * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+command+line+script&ia=qa
> > 
> > If you still need assistance to write some code to do that, then you can try
> > hiring someone to do that. I am available for hire, and you can probably find
> > others.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> > 
> > > Hart
> > > 
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> > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Dan D.]

I did a bit of poking around and could find no nws source that has a text
only format.  If you have one and the format has headers with info 
following on lines after it the same script would work for it.

In the pipe using grep with lynx -dump, the number following the -iA 
determines how many 
lines are returned following the search term.

The grep pipe can be changed to choose the number of lines as well as the 
search term with:

| grep -iA $1 1$2

The $1 would be the number of lines to return and the $2 the search term.

On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Larry Hart wrote:

> Well Dan, I would sure love to select an NWS forecast instead. Also, I notice in
> running a minus n it deops out before finishing record lo for this date. Thanks
> in advance
> Hart
>
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Jude DaShiell]

you may need to do something like --useragent=Mozilla in that lynx 
command for some of these weather servers and other web pages.

On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Larry Hart wrote:

> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 12:08:48
> From: Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Cc: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
> Subject: Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?
> 
> Well Dan, I would sure love to select an NWS forecast instead. Also, I notice 
> in running a minus n it deops out before finishing record lo for this date. 
> Thanks in advance
> Hart
>
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Larry Hart]

Well Dan, I would sure love to select an NWS forecast instead. Also, I notice in 
running a minus n it deops out before finishing record lo for this date. Thanks 
in advance
Hart

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Dan D.]

I use the lynx -dump approach also with braille underground.

I pipe it using:

| grep -iA 5 $1

Grep returns the search term $1 and the following 5 lines from the lynx
"dump".  So using "temperature" it will provide the current temp plus other
relevant current info.

The "5" can be changed to capture as many lines folllowing the search
termas you wish.

Sunset/rise and moonset/rise and phase are other examples.

Any term such as "forcast" will return the next week  or "wed" for a coming 
day will return its individual forcast.


On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Tim Chase wrote:

> On February  3, 2017, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Fortunately, braille.wunderground.com is still up. It's not command
>> line, though I imagine one could write a script quite readily.
>
> Didn't know about this one.  A quick "lynx -dump" alias seems to do
> the trick:
>
>  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210"'
>
> seems to do the trick as long as you update the query to your
> preferred zip-code or other acceptable query.
>
> If you don't care about the details like phase of moon, and links at
> the bottom, you can pipe it to sed or head:
>
>  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210" | sed /Updated/q'
>
> or
>
>  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210" | head'
>
> One could wrap it in a function to take the search parameters on the
> command-line, but I'm usually only interested in the weather fairly
> locally most of the time.
>
> -tim
>
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Larry Hart]

I wonder if there is some way of switching to a National Weather Service 
forecast, instead of this one, which reminds me of Accu Weather? Thanks in 
advance
Hart

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Jude DaShiell]

In locations outside the United States postal codes would be entered.
Those have both letters and numbers in them.
On 
Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:22:39
> From: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?
> 
> Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks Chris: Its funny the instructions, example says "wx"
>
> Yeah, save it as wx if you want, or edit the script and change the
> instructions.  I've usually had it installed as weather.
>
>> Wonder if you can combine options to get current temp-and-forecast?
>
> -f gives you both.  The temp and current conditions are at the very
> bottom of the output, after the forecast.
>
> And yes, a zip code seems to be the most reliable way to specify a
> location.  Guess this doesn't help people outside the US.  I've never
> tried to use it for a non-US location, sadly.
>
> -- Chris
>
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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Tim Chase]

On February  3, 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:
> There's also a moon-phase option

In case you want just this info, the "pom" (phase of moon) tool in the
bsdgames package gives this to you offline:

  $ pom
  The Moon is Waxing Crescent (47% of Full)

(as run 3 seconds ago).

-tim

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Chris Brannon]

Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> writes:

> Thanks Chris: Its funny the instructions, example says "wx"

Yeah, save it as wx if you want, or edit the script and change the
instructions.  I've usually had it installed as weather.

> Wonder if you can combine options to get current temp-and-forecast?

-f gives you both.  The temp and current conditions are at the very
 bottom of the output, after the forecast.

And yes, a zip code seems to be the most reliable way to specify a
location.  Guess this doesn't help people outside the US.  I've never
tried to use it for a non-US location, sadly.

-- Chris

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Larry Hart]

Thanks Chris: Its funny the instructions, example says "wx" but it only runs by 
typing weather.sh. Wonder if you can combine options to get current 
temp-and-forecast? I tried some airport codes, but actually zip-codes gave 
slightly better results. Thanks so much for this
Hart

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Chris Brannon]

Tim Chase <blinux.list@thechases.com> writes:

> On February  3, 2017, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Fortunately, braille.wunderground.com is still up. It's not command
>> line, though I imagine one could write a script quite readily.
>
> Didn't know about this one.  A quick "lynx -dump" alias seems to do
> the trick:

We have a script for braille.wunderground.com that we've
used for years.
http://the-brannons.com/weather.sh
I have no idea who originally wrote it, or I'd gladly give them credit.
There's also another script floating around that uses lynx -dump.  It
was written by Kitty Litter from the Speakup list, and has a couple more
features than this one.  Notably, the command line options can be
pre-populated from an environment variable (useful if you normally get
the weather for a single location).  There's also a moon-phase option,
and I don't recall what else.
I don't know whether he ever intended to publish it.

-- Chris

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Jude DaShiell]

Maybe wput or expect would be good starting platforms for such a script.
  I have weather-util working over here and it's an application not a 
script and a large one at that but most of that is because when once 
installed you can look up metar stations locally. It puts all the 
databases available from other sources on the local hard drive. On Fri, 3 
Feb 2017, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:44:34
> From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?
> 
> Thanks, Tim. This is very helpful and news to me. Much appreciated.
>
> The rainmaker host behind the weather command went off line earlier this
> week. I've been using that command for several decades, but it's been
> down for days, and possibly down forever. I don't know.
>
> Fortunately, braille.wunderground.com is still up. It's not command
> line, though I imagine one could write a script quite readily.
>
> Janina
>
> Tim Chase writes:
>> You can try
>>
>>   curl wttr.in
>>
>> which should attempt to find you by IP address and dump the weather
>> to the terminal.  It does some fancy-ANSI stuff to colorize it &
>> draw boxes, and it wrapped a little on my 80-column display.
>>
>> You can also customize it:
>>
>> Airport codes:  curl wttr.in/dfw
>> Cities: curl wttr.in/London
>> Postal codes: curl wttr.in/90210
>> Help: curl wttr.in/:help
>>
>> Hope this gets you what you need.
>>
>> -tim
>> [sorry if this was a dupe; I had mail-server issues]
>>
>> On February  1, 2017, Larry Hart wrote:
>>> Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes
>>> through Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off
>>> the air. This script is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go
>>> much ferther back. Can some1 please suggest an alternative
>>> commandline script for receiving current conditions and forecasts?
>>> Thanks so much in advance Hart
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Blinux-list mailing list
>>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
>

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Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Tim Chase]

On February  3, 2017, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Fortunately, braille.wunderground.com is still up. It's not command
> line, though I imagine one could write a script quite readily.

Didn't know about this one.  A quick "lynx -dump" alias seems to do
the trick:

  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210"'

seems to do the trick as long as you update the query to your
preferred zip-code or other acceptable query.

If you don't care about the details like phase of moon, and links at
the bottom, you can pipe it to sed or head:

  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210" | sed /Updated/q'

or

  alias weather='lynx -dump "https://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?brand=braille&query=90210" | head'

One could wrap it in a function to take the search parameters on the
command-line, but I'm usually only interested in the weather fairly
locally most of the time.

-tim

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Tim. This is very helpful and news to me. Much appreciated.

The rainmaker host behind the weather command went off line earlier this
week. I've been using that command for several decades, but it's been
down for days, and possibly down forever. I don't know.

Fortunately, braille.wunderground.com is still up. It's not command
line, though I imagine one could write a script quite readily.

Janina

Tim Chase writes:
> You can try
> 
>   curl wttr.in
> 
> which should attempt to find you by IP address and dump the weather
> to the terminal.  It does some fancy-ANSI stuff to colorize it &
> draw boxes, and it wrapped a little on my 80-column display.
> 
> You can also customize it:
> 
> Airport codes:  curl wttr.in/dfw
> Cities: curl wttr.in/London
> Postal codes: curl wttr.in/90210
> Help: curl wttr.in/:help
> 
> Hope this gets you what you need.
> 
> -tim
> [sorry if this was a dupe; I had mail-server issues]
> 
> On February  1, 2017, Larry Hart wrote:
> > Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes
> > through Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off
> > the air. This script is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go
> > much ferther back. Can some1 please suggest an alternative
> > commandline script for receiving current conditions and forecasts?
> > Thanks so much in advance Hart
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blinux-list mailing list
> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> 
> _______________________________________________
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			sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina@rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Tim Chase]

You can try

  curl wttr.in

which should attempt to find you by IP address and dump the weather
to the terminal.  It does some fancy-ANSI stuff to colorize it &
draw boxes, and it wrapped a little on my 80-column display.

You can also customize it:

Airport codes:  curl wttr.in/dfw
Cities: curl wttr.in/London
Postal codes: curl wttr.in/90210
Help: curl wttr.in/:help

Hope this gets you what you need.

-tim
[sorry if this was a dupe; I had mail-server issues]

On February  1, 2017, Larry Hart wrote:
> Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes
> through Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off
> the air. This script is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go
> much ferther back. Can some1 please suggest an alternative
> commandline script for receiving current conditions and forecasts?
> Thanks so much in advance Hart
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Mr. Hart!

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:24:39 -0800
Larry Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:

> Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes through 
> Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off the air. This script
> is from 2009, but earlier versions I think go much ferther back. Can some1
> please suggest an alternative commandline script for receiving current
> conditions and forecasts? Thanks so much in advance

There are several relevant hits here:

* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+api&ia=web

* https://metacpan.org/search?q=weather

* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+command+line+script&ia=qa

If you still need assistance to write some code to do that, then you can try
hiring someone to do that. I am available for hire, and you can probably find
others.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Hart
> 
> _______________________________________________
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Are their other Working Weather Scripts?

[Larry Hart]

Well, for many years I have been running a "wx" script which goes through 
Wunderground telnet site. Well, I think that site is off the air. This script is 
from 2009, but earlier versions I think go much ferther back. Can some1 please 
suggest an alternative commandline script for receiving current conditions and 
forecasts? Thanks so much in advance
Hart