AnsiWeather is a shell script for displaying the current weather conditions in your terminal, with support for ANSI colors and Unicode symbols.
The script retrieves its data from the OpenWeatherMap free weather API.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Specify the location. Location format is city,CC where CC is a two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
- Choose between metric or imperial units.
- Toggle the forecast mode for five or a specified number (up to 7) of upcoming days.
- Toggle ANSI colors.
- Toggle symbols.
- Toggle wind data, humidity data, pressure data, UV index, wind data, daylight data.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Smart OS, and Mac OS X.
Website: github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
Support:
Developer: Frederic Cambus
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
AnsiWeather requires the following dependencies:
- A command to fetch HTTP data such as FTP, cURL or wget.
- jq (lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor).
- bc (arbitrary precision numeric processing language), for doing float arithmetic.
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