Conky - Weather Underground Script

pyther · 2011-10-16 19:10:25

Since weather.com is ending their free XOAP service conkyForecast will no longer work at the end of this month.

Therefore I wrote a small script to get the temperature and condition from Weather Underground

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Fetches Weather info from Weather Underground
#
# Usage: ./wundergound.py zipcode
#
# International:
#  * Go to http://www.wunderground.com/
#  * Find your city
#  * Click the RSS icon
#  * Station ID is the number that follows /stations/ in the url
#
#

# Values are either True or False
metric=False
international=False

import sys
import feedparser

def usage():
    print("Usage:")
    if international:
        print("  ./wunderground.py StationID")
    else:
        print("  ./weunderground.py zipcode")
    sys.exit(1)

if not len(sys.argv) == 2:
    usage()

location=sys.argv[1]

if international:
    url="http://rss.wunderground.com/auto/rss_full/global/stations/"
else:
    url="http://rss.wunderground.com/auto/rss_full/"

feed=feedparser.parse(url+location)

if not feed.feed:
    # Assume Error
    print("Error")
    sys.exit(1)

current=feed['items'][0].title

if metric:
    temp=current.split(",")[0].split(":")[1].split("/")[1].strip()
else:
    temp=current.split(",")[0].split(":")[1].split("/")[0].strip()

condition=current.split(",")[1].split("-")[0].strip()

print(temp, "-", condition)

Example:

$ ./wunderground 11201
69.6F - Clear

Conky:

${execi 600 /home/pyther/scripts/wunderground 11201}

Enjoy!

Snakeye · 2011-10-20 06:26:38

Crap didn't know, glad i spotted this while browsing! Good work!

Narga · 2011-10-28 10:55:51

Thanks, but Weather Underground not support my location

7etc/ · 2011-10-29 12:22:18

So, you, re saying the yaourt packages for conky (conkyforecast and -bzr) are going to become useless? I like this packages!!!.

ianux · 2011-12-08 18:55:15

conkyforecast-bzr since r66 supports WU (but lacks locale and weather fonts support) which should become the default. You still need a (free) API key.

Lacoste · 2011-12-14 05:22:34

Syntax seems to have changed. For those who don't know Python, there are some newer scripts mentioned here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p … =3118776.0

pyther · 2011-12-14 12:41:51

What do you mean by the syntax has changed?

swanson · 2011-12-14 17:35:50

The script works fine but I'd like to modify it a bit. Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on feedparser? I've googled but only found raw guides for programmers.

pyther · 2011-12-14 17:51:09

Here is the documentation for feedparser: http://packages.python.org/feedparser/

What exactly are you trying to do? In the script feedparser is getting the first rss entry and parsing it.

If you want the afternoon, night, or next day entries...
afternoon=feed['items'][1].title # afternoon
tonight=feed['items'][2].title # Tonight
tomorrow=feed['items'][3].title # tomorrow

swanson · 2011-12-14 18:19:26

Thanks just what I was looking for!

Paul-S · 2011-12-15 07:55:48

Thanks for the script pyther, did anyone modify it for like a 2 or 3 day forecast? Any chance of posting it, thanks.

Cheers
Paul-S

swanson · 2011-12-15 19:00:21

Working on it ...

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