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Jorje_Villafan

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Registered: 2009-01-25

Posts: 13

Another Conky Weather Forecast Solution

Not the prettiest out there, but works for me. Haven't seen this one out there yet.

Dependencies: elinks, conky

What it does: Creates a file in ~/ with weather forecast from weather.com. Then displays pieces of text from that file in Conky.

Place this in your ~/.conkyrc:

${color #79f9ff}Weather              Details               High/low F          Rain?
${color grey}${execi 3600 elinks "http://www.weather.com/weather/print/97302" > YOUR_FILE_NAME ; cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *11" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *13" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *15" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *17" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *19" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *21" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *23" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *25" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *27" | cut -c10-100}
${color grey}${execi 3600 cat -n YOUR_FILE_NAME | grep "^ *29" | cut -c10-100}

Replace the 97302 zip code in the address with your own. Change all the YOUR_FILE_NAMEs to whatever you want your weather file name to be. Make sure they are all the same though. Ctrl+S and there should be some weather output in Conky. You might have to fidget with the greps and cuts to make it look right for you (but probably not).