What does HackerNews think of wttr.in?
:partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather
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Or you can just use this and avoid installing a script to check the weather!
How does this compare to long standing CLI oriented web services like https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in ?
I prefer this one:
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
You gotta love terminal man!
curl 'wttr.in/?format=%c'
see the readme here for all options:
I like this site. It would be even better if the non-https resources were changed to use https to avoid the warnings. Is there a page that describes how to get the weather for different locations without knowing the appropriate names in advance? It looks like you can use airport codes which can be looked up. [1] oh, that has the link to the help page. [2]
[1] - https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
[2] - https://wttr.in/:help
You might want to curl the weather on your login with https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in I do this on my RPi
It uses http rather than telnet, but wttr.in is a practical replacement for this: