weather.sh

A bash script to get the weather from OpenWeatherMap and output to the terminal, Openbox, or HTML

Contents

1. About
2. License
3. Prerequisites
4. How to use

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1. About

Weather report written in Bash.

weather.sh gets the current weather from OpenWeatherMap and displays the results to the terminal, HTML, or for an OpenBox pipe menu. It will calculate (if appropriate) the "feel like" weather by calculating the wind chill or heat index. A great deal of basis for this script comes from BashWeather, bash-weather, and many more that I forgot to save the URLs of.

2. License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. For the full license, see LICENSE.

3. Prerequisites

• OpenWeatherMap API key (http://openweathermap.org/appid).
• Bash shell ≥ 4.2.
• bc basic calculator for floating point arithmetic. Can be found in the bc package on major Linux distributions.
• curl command-line tool for getting data using HTTP protocol. cURL can be found in the curl package on major Linux distributions.
• grep command-line tool used for parsing downloaded XML data. grep can be found in the grep package on major Linux distributions.
• jq command-line tool for parsing JSON data. jq can be found in the jq package on major Linux distributions.
• tr command-line tool for parsing JSON data. tr can be found in the tr package on major Linux distributions.

4. How to use

Run weather.sh with the appropriate commandline switches (below). If the current conditions do not qualify for the heat index or wind chill, it is not displayed.

weather_sh.rc

Copy (and edit, as appropriate) the weather_sh.rc file to $HOME\.config.
The first line is the OpenWeatherMap API key
The second line is your default location
The third line is your default degree character (either c or f)
The fourth line is True or False depending on whether or not you want icons displayed for the weather.

Command-line options

weather.sh can be started with the following command line options:

• -k Specifies OpenWeatherMap API key from the command-line.
• -l city_name Sets the city for manual weather lookup.
• -t Output to the terminal/stdout (default if no output is specified)
• -h Output HTML formatted text
• -o Output OpenBox output
• -f Use imperial (farenheit, inches Hg, mph) units; default is metric

Note: If the OpenWeatherMap API key is specified from the command-line, it will override the API key set in the file.