wego: A Go repository from peterfpeterson

wego is a weather client for the terminal.

Features

show forecast for 1 to 7 days
nice ASCII art icons
displayed info (metric or imperial units):
- temperature range (felt and measured)
- windspeed and direction
- viewing distance
- precipitation amount and probability
ssl, so the NSA has a harder time learning where you live or plan to go
multi language support
config file for default location which can be overridden by commandline
Automatic config management with ingo

Dependencies

A working Go 1.20 environment
utf-8 terminal with 256 colors
A monospaced font containing all the required runes (I use dejavu sans mono)
An API key for the backend (see Setup below)

Installation

Check your distribution for packaging:

To directly install or update the wego binary from Github into your $GOPATH as usual, run:

go install github.com/schachmat/wego@latest

Setup

Run wego once. You will get an error message, but the .wegorc config file will be generated in your $HOME directory (it will be hidden in some file managers due to the filename starting with a dot).
With an Openweathermap account
- You can create an account and get a free API key by signing up
- Update the following .wegorc config variables to fit your needs:
```
  backend=openweathermap
  location=New York
  owm-api-key=YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY_HERE
```
With a Worldweatheronline account
- Worldweatheronline no longer gives out free API keys. #83
- Update the following .wegorc config variables to fit your needs:
```
  backend=worldweatheronline
  location=New York
  wwo-api-key=YOUR_WORLDWEATHERONLINE_API_KEY_HERE
```
You may want to adjust other preferences like days, units and …-lang as well. Save the file.
Run wego once again and you should get the weather forecast for the current and next few days for your chosen location.
If you're visiting someone in e.g. London over the weekend, just run wego 4 London or wego London 4 (the ordering of arguments makes no difference) to get the forecast for the current and the next 3 days.

You can set the $WEGORC environment variable to override the default config file location.

Todo

more backends and frontends
resolve ALL the issues
don't forget the TODOs in the code

License - ISC

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.