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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Blinux-list mailing list > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/Self-Sufficiency/ > > > > Chuck Norris once counted all the real numbers on his fingers. (by: ZadYree) > > ? http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ > > > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > XB > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list