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ondoho

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Weather Conky - Finnish and Global - Ilmatieteen Laitoksen Sääennuste

a conky script (conkyrc + bash script) utilizing a finnish weather site:
ilmatieteenlaitos.fi
It offers global forecasts in 3 languages: english, finnish, swedish.

Get it here: https://notabug.org/ohnonot/conky-itl-weather.

Suomenkielinen keskustelu linux.fi-foorumilla

Enjoy!

Last edited by ondoho (2018-06-22 01:35:34)

ondoho

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Re: Weather Conky - Finnish and Global - Ilmatieteen Laitoksen Sääennuste

There has been some major changes to the website and i adapted the script accordingly - it's much better now.
I rewrote the whole script, trying to work closer to the actual html code instead of treating it as plain text and parsing it with sed & grep...
i'd love to get better with xmllint's xpath option - either it has some serious limitations (UTF encoding seems to be unknown to it, for one) or i haven't learned to use it properly. apart from that it seems to be the perfect tool for this. if someone knows of a medium-level linux oriented tutorial for xpath, please let me know!

edit:
small changes coming in every now and then.
i will not continue bumping this thread - check it out here if you want.

Last edited by ondoho (2014-08-29 18:56:31)

ondoho

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Re: Weather Conky - Finnish and Global - Ilmatieteen Laitoksen Sääennuste

i have updated this a few times meanwhile. the discussion on crunchbang forums was a bit livelier recently.
the big news is that you canget worldwide forecast now, in 3 languages: english, finnish, swedish. and the script works for all 3.
so maybe this will attract a few more users.

ondoho

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Re: Weather Conky - Finnish and Global - Ilmatieteen Laitoksen Sääennuste

I finally managed to put this up on github:
https://notabug.org/ohnonot/conky-itl-weather
***tralalaa***
Feedback welcome!

Last edited by ondoho (2018-06-22 01:35:58)

ondoho

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Re: Weather Conky - Finnish and Global - Ilmatieteen Laitoksen Sääennuste

I'm still working on this.
There's been many changes over the years, but the goal is still the same: to get a very informative weather forecast from a local source.
the design could be nicer though...