diff --git a/sources/tech/20180710 Display Weather Forecast In Your Terminal With Wttr.in.md b/sources/tech/20180710 Display Weather Forecast In Your Terminal With Wttr.in.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0fdd9389e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20180710 Display Weather Forecast In Your Terminal With Wttr.in.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +Display Weather Forecast In Your Terminal With Wttr.in +====== +**[wttr.in][1] is a feature-packed weather forecast service that supports displaying the weather from the command line**. It can automatically detect your location (based on your IP address), supports specifying the location or searching for a geographical location (like a site in a city, a mountain and so on), and much more. Oh, and **you don't have to install it - all you need to use it is cURL or Wget** (see below). + +wttr.in features include: + + * **displays the current weather as well as a 3-day weather forecast, split into morning, noon, evening and night** (includes temperature range, wind speed and direction, viewing distance, precipitation amount and probability) + + * **can display Moon phases** + + * **automatic location detection based on your IP address** + + * **allows specifying a location using the city name, 3-letter airport code, area code, GPS coordinates, IP address, or domain name**. You can also specify a geographical location like a lake, mountain, landmark, and so on) + + * **supports multilingual location names** (the query string must be specified in Unicode) + + * **supports specifying the language** in which the weather forecast should be displayed in (it supports more than 50 languages) + + * **it uses USCS units for queries from the USA and the metric system for the rest of the world** , but you can change this by appending `?u` for USCS, and `?m` for the metric system (SI) + + * **3 output formats: ANSI for the terminal, HTML for the browser, and PNG**. + + + + +Like I mentioned in the beginning of the article, to use wttr.in, all you need is cURL or Wget, but you can also + +**Before using wttr.in, make sure cURL is installed.** In Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint (and other Debian or Ubuntu-based Linux distributions), install cURL using this command: +``` +sudo apt install curl + +``` + +### wttr.in command line examples + +Get the weather for your location (wttr.in tries to guess your location based on your IP address): +``` +curl wttr.in + +``` + +Force cURL to resolve names to IPv4 addresses (in case you're having issues with IPv6 and wttr.in) by adding `-4` after `curl` : +``` +curl -4 wttr.in + +``` + +**Wget also works** (instead of cURL) if you want to retrieve the current weather and forecast as a png, or if you use it like this: +``` +wget -O- -q wttr.in + +``` + +You can replace `curl` with `wget -O- -q` in all the commands below if you prefer Wget over cURL. + +Specify the location: +``` +curl wttr.in/Dublin + +``` + +Display weather information for a landmark (the Eiffel Tower in this example): +``` +curl wttr.in/~Eiffel+Tower + +``` + +Get the weather information for an IP address' location (the IP below belongs to GitHub): +``` +curl wttr.in/@192.30.253.113 + +``` + +Retrieve the weather using USCS units: +``` +curl wttr.in/Paris?u + +``` + +Force wttr.in to use the metric system (SI) if you're in the USA: +``` +curl wttr.in/New+York?m + +``` + +Use Wget to download the current weather and 3-day forecast as a PNG image: +``` +wget wttr.in/Istanbul.png + +``` + +You can specify the PNG + +**For many other examples, check out the wttr.in[project page][2] or type this in a terminal:** +``` +curl wttr.in/:help + +``` + + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/display-weather-forecast-in-your.html + +作者:[Logix][a] +选题:[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972) +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]:https://plus.google.com/118280394805678839070 +[1]:https://wttr.in/ +[2]:https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in +[3]:https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in#installation +[4]:https://github.com/schachmat/wego +[5]:https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in#supported-formats