linecast is a terminal-based suite for viewing weather conditions, precipitation radar, solar information and tide predictions. Its colourful text interface uses Unicode Braille characters, sparklines and range bars to present detailed information without requiring a graphical desktop.
The utilities open in an interactive full-screen mode with automatic updates and keyboard navigation. They can also produce a single static snapshot for scripts, pipes or conventional terminal output. linecast is written in Python, has no runtime dependencies and retrieves its data from public services without requiring API keys.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays current weather conditions and a seven-day forecast.
- Plots hourly temperatures as a Unicode Braille curve.
- Shows precipitation forecasts, weather alerts and natural-language comparisons.
- Animates precipitation radar over a Braille-rendered basemap.
- Includes worldwide radar coverage with automatic fallback data providers.
- Displays storm warning polygons in supported regions.
- Visualises the sun’s position, day length, daily change and moon phase.
- Charts tide predictions, current water levels and high and low extremes.
- Offers interactive full-screen and static output modes.
- Supports metric and imperial measurements.
- Provides interfaces in 16 languages.
- Includes themes, terminal colour detection and a no-colour mode.
- Supports Bash, Zsh and Fish shell completion.
- Runs on Linux and macOS with Python 3.10 or later.
Website: github.com/ashuttl/linecast
Support:
Developer: Andrew Shuttleworth Fowler
License: MIT License
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