wbar: A Go repository from ealvar3z

wbar: weatherbar

Description

wbar: simple go utility for fetching and formatting weather information. Built for a status bar, and it fetches its data from weather.gov.

Installation

Clone the repository and run

  go install .

inside of it, or install directly (ensure your $PATH is set):

  go install github.com/ealvar3z/wbar@latest

Usage

The intended usage is inside of i3status, i3blocks, or dwmblocks to put weather in your status bar.

dwm:
Below is a minimal blocks.h that only has this block in it with an interval of 600 seconds and a signal of RTMIN+12 associated with it.
```
static const Block blocks[] = {
  {"", "wbar -f DMX -x 133 -y 37", 600, 12},
};

static char delim = '|';
```

i3status:

bar {
status_command i3status | /path/to/w3bar
}

i3blocks:

[weather]
command=/path/to/w3bar
interval=600

Getting Weather

First, find the latitude and longitude for your location. Use these with the following command to get your grid x and y coordinates.

  curl ipinfo.io | grep 'loc'
  # -> "loc": "133.37, 37.133",
  curl -sX GET "https://api.weather.gov/points/133.37,37.133" |\
  grep -iE '(gridid|grid[xy])'
  # -> "gridId": "DMX",
  #    "gridX": 42,
  #    "gridY": 69,

Then you can set these in your program invocation using the office, -x, and -y flags:

  wbar -office DMX -x 42 -y 69