Wetboobs

Wetboobs is a console application (part of Weboob) to display current weather on supported websites (see CapWeather) and to see forecasts.

Get Wetboobs

This application is a part of Weboob. Download it and install it with:

$ ./setup.py install

For more information about installation of Weboob read this page.

Usage

You can run wetboobs without any parameter to get an interactive prompt, or specify a command to run it directly and exit just after.

In this page we will use the interactive mode:

$ wetboobs
Welcome to wetboobs

Copyright(C) 2010 Romain Bignon
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

Type "help" to display available commands.

Loaded backends: meteofrance

wetboobs>

Use the help command to see what are available commands.

The first time you launch wetboobs, it will ask you what backends you want to add and configure. You can also use the backends command to manage them, and to enable only specific backends.

To get more information about advanced usage of wetboobs, see the console applications common options.

Looking for a city

Usage:

wetboobs> search PATTERN

Example:

wetboobs> search puteaux
* (1) Puteaux 92800 (meteofrance)

Note: this example uses the generic formatter option.

Get current weather

Usage:

wetboobs> current <# or ID>

For example, you can use the number of the previous city search results:

wetboobs> current 1
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:59 pm CET: 19°C - Fair

Get forecasts

Usage:

wetboobs> forecasts <# or ID>

For example:

wetboobs> forecasts 1
* Aujourd'hui:    (2°C - 3°C) Pluie et neige mêlées
* Mardi 07:       (0°C - 4°C) Pluie et neige mêlées
* Mercredi 08:    (2°C - 4°C) Neige
* Jeudi 09:       (0°C - 3°C) Variable

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