PyYrASCII

About

An ASCII version of http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Oslo/Oslo/Oslo/time_for_time.html. Created to be run by a finger server.

Usage

The service can be used in the following ways:

• finger [email protected] - norwegian city name
• finger [email protected] - norwegian postal code
• finger [email protected] - international city name. These are not hourly. Only data for every 6 hours available.
• o:oslo to get a one-liner for use in screen, tmux, scripts.
• finger <city name>[email protected] (forecast from 5 hours ahead in time, max:26)
• finger <city name>%[email protected] (forecast every 2 hours instead of every hour)
• finger <city name>[email protected] (set screenwidth. default 80. other widths may be ugly)
• finger @graph.no - for more information

Availability

• Finger is supported on all major platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, ...). Open up your terminal (or cmd.exe on Windows).
• If you don't have finger available, but have some standard shell tools, try one of the following:
  • echo oslo|nc graph.no 79
  • telnet graph.no 79 (and then type oslo)

Example

$ finger [email protected]
                   -= Meteogram for norway/oslo/oslo/oslo =-                    
 'C                                                                   Rain (mm)
 19------                                                             
 17      ------                                                       
 15            ---                                                    
 13               ---                                                 
 11                  ---                                              
  9                                                               ---
  7                     ^^^===                                 ^^^    
  5                           ===---                        ^^^       
  3                             |   ------^^^^^^         ^^^          2 mm
  1                          |  |               ^^^^^^^^^             1 mm
    15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Hour

    SW SW SW  W NW NW NW  W  W  W  W SW SW SW  S  S  S  S  S SW SW SW Wind dir.
     3  2  2  3  3  3  3  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  3  6  7  6  7  7 Wind(mps)

Legend left axis:   - Sunny   ^ Scattered   = Clouded   =V= Lightning   # Fog
Legend right axis:  | Rain    ! Sleet       * Snow       '  High uncertainty
Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
and the NRK. Try "finger @graph.no" for more info.

For the U.S., thanks to a comment at http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/18/get-weather-command-line-finger-graph/:

finger [email protected] | sed "s/'C/'F/" | sed 's/^ \?-\?[0-9]\+/{\0{/' | awk -F{ '{if($2 != "") printf "%3i%s\n", $2*1.8+32, $3; else print $1;}'

                   -= Meteogram for norway/oslo/oslo/oslo =-
 'F                                                                   Rain (mm)
 77                                                                   
 73                                                                   
 69                                                               --- 
 66                                                      ^^^=--=--    
 62                                                ^^^^^^             
 59---                                          ^^^                   
 55   =--^^^=--^^^^^^                     =--^^^                      
 51                  ^^^=--=--^^^      =--                            
  9                              =-----                               
  7                                                                   
    20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06_07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17 Hour

    SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE NW NW NW NW NW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW Wind dir.
     2  2  1  2  2  2  2  2  0  1  0  1  1  1  2  2  2  1  4  4  4  5 Wind(mps)

Legend left axis:   - Sunny   ^ Scattered   = Clouded   =V= Thunder   # Fog
Legend right axis:  | Rain    ! Sleet       * Snow

Thanks

If you like the service, or want to report bugs, suggestions, etc, please drop me a line at [email protected].

Thanks to selbekk and karnival for pull requests.

Requirements for installation (setting up your own service)

• Please checkout https://github.com/ways/pyyrlib to project directory.
• Please checkout https://github.com/ways/pyofflinefilecache to project directory.
• debian packages: python-mysqldb

TODO

• BUG: o: doesn't show full location name
• BUG: Too tall for windows default window size.
• BUG: Temperature sometimes runs of scale in not-hourly mode.
• BUG: Uncertain-rain overwrites the out-of-scale value on top.
• FEATURE: Add arguments to get weather in different format:
  • i:0458 to get an iconic view. ("Fullscreen" or small?)
• IMPROVEMENT: improve 0458%3
• IMPROVEMENT: add text to o: ( "cloudy", "thunder", etc).
• FEATURE: Include warnings (obsforecast). Example:

<forecast>
<text>
<location name="Oslo">
<time from="2012-06-28" to="2012-06-29" type="obsforecast">
<title>Thursday and Friday</title>
<body>
<strong>Oslo:</strong> Fredag ettermiddag lokalt store nedbørsmengder.
</body>
</time>
<time from="2012-06-29" to="2012-06-30">
<title>Friday and Saturday</title>
<body>
<strong>Østlandet:</strong> Sørøstlig bris, kortvarig liten kuling i Ytre Oslofjord. Noen regnbyger. Fra i ettermiddag sørlig bris, sørvest frisk bris på kysten. Etter hvert skyet eller delvis skyet, stort sett oppholdsvær. I morgen sørlig bris. På kysten sørvest frisk bris som øker til liten kuling utpå dagen. Skiftende skydekke og enkelte regnbyger. Perioder med sol, særlig nær kysten.
</body>
      </time>
    </location>
  </text>
</forecast>

• See https://github.com/ways/pyyrlib for TODOs in library.
• FEATURE: allow wind in kmh, mph.
• FEATURE: allow temperature in F.

Links and mentions

• Source - https://github.com/ways
• Announced - http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ouday/retro_weather_forecast_finger/
• News article - http://nrkbeta.no/2012/04/06/old-skool-vaervarsling/
• LittlePrinter plugin from Berg Hack-a-day - http://twitpic.com/a298vv http://www.flickr.com/photos/knolleary/7473137758/in/photostream/
• https://hackerb.it/2016/02/15/mit-finger-wetterdaten-abrufen/
• https://twitter.com/ihsandogan/status/699148352940810240?s=03
• http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/18/get-weather-command-line-finger-graph/
• http://localhost.exposed/2016/02/17/command-line-access-to-weather-data/
• http://lifehacker.com/get-a-quick-weather-forecast-with-a-terminal-command-1760639048
• http://ben.hamilton.id.au/how-to/get-the-weather-from-the-command-line
• https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160404
• http://osarena.net/meteorologikes-provlepseis-sto-termatiko-sas

Similar projects

• https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather