Re:Weather reports with curl
by emwjacobson on Sunday July 08, 2018 @08:18PM
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Calling it on its own always returns the weather for Ottawa. Id expect it to use the requesting IP's location at the least. Using wttr.in/~LosAngeles returns the weather for "Rua Professora Maria Losângeles Navarro", a street in Brazil.
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You're looking for `http://wttr.in/Los%20Angeles`
It gives me the weather for "Italy, United States of America". So having got the country of Italy from the geolocation, it must then be doing a US-centric text search for the location.
The weather report is nice but doesn't work too well with rxvt-unicode or with a light-coloured background.
Mine returned Oymyakon, Russia. Nearly 8,000km from my location, or IP address geoloc. I'm assuming it's possibly picking up some hop in between, maybe?
Mine too, but at the very bottom, it says "We were unable to find your location
so we have brought you to Oymyakon,
one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet."
There's an explanation below the weather table:
> We were unable to find your location so we have brought you to Oymyakon, one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.
I have no idea how it parses text.
`curl wttr.in/~LosAngelesCA` gave me an address in Russia
`curl wttr.in/~LosAngeles,CA` gave me LA in California
For me, it used my IP and got the correct location.