Current weather information
Weather is a free service which fetches the current weather data from Yahoo! and returns them as TEXT or XML. This weather information can be according to their own ideas in an HTML page or via script in Conky to display on the desktop. The page have to be called with the Key to the City as the ID. Calling the following URL displays the current weather information and tomorrow's forecast of Berlin.
https://weather.tuxnet24.de/?id=638242
In addition, the parameter unit can be specified with the values of c for Celsius and f for Fahrenheit. For performance reason, the results are cached for 10 minutes, before a live query performed again on Yahoo!.
The following overview shows all the keys and the associated description. Instead of the description, the respective values are displayed.
latitude = Latitude longitude = Longitude city = City region = Region country = Country humidity = Humidity visibility = Visibility pressure = Atmospheric pressure rising = Atmospheric pressure rising sunrise = Sunrise sunset = Sunset current_date = Current Date current_temp = Current temperature current_temp_low = min. Temperature of Today current_temp_high = max. Temperature of Today current_code = Current image code current_text = Current Description current_image = Current picture speed = Wind speed direction = Wind direction chill = icy/cold wind tomorrow_date = Date of tomorrow (DD Nov YYYY) tomorrow_day = Day of tomorrow (Thu) tomorrow_temp_low = min. Temperature of Tomorrow tomorrow_temp_high = max. Temperature of Tomorrow tomorrow_text = Weather Description of Tomorrow tomorrow_code = Pictures Code of Tomorrow tomorrow_image = Image of Tomorrow
The output of the weather information is displayed as text/plain in UTF-8 charset. The weather information will be retrieved from http://weather.yahoo.com/ (XML) and converted to TEXT format. The parameter mode=xml display the output as application/xml in UTF-8. The parameter mode=json display the output as application/xml in UTF-8. The appropriate Yahoo! Weather code for your city (if it exists), you can determine on weather code.