#Geektool vs update#
#Geektool vs mac#

#Geektool vs update#

Using the Yahoo! Weather Developer documentation, I added the additional data structures to the Python script needed to obtain the additional weather information, and I also added a few new runtime options for requesting the sunrise/sunset times, determining whether it is currently day or night, returning the weather code defined in the Yahoo! Weather Developer documentation, returning the last update time for the current weather conditions, and returning the wind chill.

Fourth, I added the optional display of the sunrise and sunset times and a few other weather options such as wind chill (also known as the “feels-like” temperature).

Third, I added day-night awareness to permit selection of day-night-dependent weather icons and.

Second, I added output of a short weather description so that I could build a Bash “wrapper” script to select a corresponding weather image from a collection of icon files for display purposes.

First, I modified the query request to Yahoo! Weather to use the new format request (more about that shortly).

The changes I made to the original Python script were four-fold: Instead, I chose to base a consolidated solution for displaying a weather icon, current weather conditions, and forecast upon Thomas Upton’s original Python script, which I called weather-new.py, partnered with a custom Bash script called weather-condition.sh for assisting with the current weather icon handling. I thought about patching the various scripts. Ultimately, the problem was due to a query change instituted by Yahoo! in its public API for retrieving weather conditions and forecasts. I searched around for answers, which led me to various theories (see here and here) as to why the scripts no longer worked. Over the years, problems arose with the current weather image icon script that required various workarounds, such as switching to the French Yahoo! weather site for images.Ī few months ago, all three weather scripts stopped working. I also used two additional scripts from other sources for displaying a current weather image icon obtained from Yahoo! and another that displayed a five-day weather forecast.

A few years ago after browsing on the Internet for various weather geeklets and scripts, I settled on one created by Thomas Upton written in Python that used Yahoo! weather for displaying current conditions, called weather.py: One of my favorite displays is current weather information.

#Geektool vs mac#

I’m a long-time GeekTool user, which I use to display various pieces of information on my Mac desktop. Version 1.1 incorporating these fixes can be found here. I also implemented a workaround of a Yahoo! weather bug in which the sunset time string drops the leading zero for the minutes in some locations. Update (May 7, 2016): Many thanks to kind reader who asked about the metric option to display temperature in Celsius.

Version 2.0 incorporating OAuth1 and switching to JSON for retrieval can be found here. 3, 2019, the and for Yahoo Weather API are retired. Just enter that as the Unix command, and you should see your external IP address in GeekTool.Update (March 18, 2019): As of Thursday, Jan. To save you the digging, though, here’s the command: curl -silent | awk '' | cut -f 1 -d '<'. The Unix source for that entry can be found buried in

In the video, I show one GeekTool entry that displays my external IP address, which can be useful if you’re trying to debug a network connectivity problem.

Mega Roundup of GeekTool Scripts on Francesco Mugnai’s blog (which contains links to many other sites).

Geek to Live: Monitor your Mac and more with GeekTool on Lifehacker.

GeekTool and bash one liners on Mac Geekery.

Ultimate GeekTool Setup on Keynote 2 Keynote.

In the course of the video, I reference a collection of sites where you can find more powerful examples of what you can do with GeekTool.