cli-weather 0.1.9

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cliweather 0.1.9

cli-weather






Table of Contents

cli-weather

Table of Contents
Introduction
Installation
Basic Usage
Data sources
Dependencies
Version History
How to Contribute

Bug Reports and Feature Requests
Developing


License
Reaching Out
Support The Project :sparkling_heart:




Introduction

cli-weather is a command line app to get instant real-time weather data by city name or postalcode from any corner on earth right on the command line.


Written in python and powered by WeatherBIT API, cli-weather also provides detailed weather data, air-quality data and forecasts for next 7 days with 24 hour intervals for weather and 3 days forecast with 12 hour intervals for air-quality.


With cli-weather app you can retrieve current weather observations from over 45,000 live weather stations using WeatherBIT API, and highly localized weather forecasts for any point on the globe using the world's most trusted weather models such as GFS 13km, ECMWF, DWD 6.5km ICON-Europe, and NOAA 3km HRRR.!


You can look up weather data any of the following means:

By entering city_name
By entering postal_code



Installation

cli-weather requires pip python package manager to install.






Local Installation
$ git clone "https://github.com/vatsa287/cli-weather"
$ cd cli-weather/cli_weather
$ python main.py -h



Tarball and Wheel Installation

Anyone one of the following is sufficient. Wheel is recommended for its faster installation.


Tarball

Download tarball file present in high-level format with tar.gz extension from Releases tab and extract to continue with Local Installation


Wheel

Download wheel file present in binary format with .whl extension from Releases tab and extract to continue with Local Installation





Docker Container

Containerized version of cli-weather is present in DockerHub at https://hub.docker.com/r/vatsa287/cli-weather. Steps to use cli-weather in a container



Pull Image

Latest containerized version tag is 1.0
$ docker pull vatsa287/cli-weather:1.0





List Image

Check to confirm right tag
$ docker image ls





Run Container


Run the container in interactive mode, also expose the terminal for input and --rm=true to save memory usage. Port mapping is optional.
$ docker run -it --rm=true vatsa287/cli-weather:1.0

Can continue further with usage.







Basic Usage

Note: Airquality information will not be available from version v1.0.0 since source API is now premium.

$ cli-weather command [-h] [-a] [-d] [-f] [-c COUNTRY] [-u {M,S,I}] city_nmae/postal_code


Example : Detailed weather data and Brief airquality data with input mode as city_name and postal_code respectively.









Features at a glance


Positional and Optional arguments: v0.1.9 supports two modes of input and 5 options giving numerous cominations.



Command
Description




city
Get weather by city name


postalcode
Get weather by postal code






Option
Description




-a, --airquality
Display current air quality


-f, --forecast
Forecast on weather/airquality


-c, --country
Country of entered area


-u, --units
Metric, Scientific, Imperial


-d, --detailed
Display detailed weather data


-h, --help
Show this message and exit





Supported Units: v0.1.5 supports Metric,Scientific and Farenheit indices.



Units
Extensions




M
Celcius, m/s, mm


S
Kelvin, m/s, mm


I
F, mph, in










Gallery of Examples
Check manual for comprehensive demo of all possible options with examples.



Data sources

API : cli-weather is powered by WeatherBIT API


weatherbit.io


Dependencies

cli-weather requires requests >= 2.4 to run, comes bundled with the package.


Version History
Latest :
Description of all versions is present here.

How to Contribute
Bug Reports and Feature Requests
Please use the issue tracker to report any bugs or file feature requests.
Developing
PRs are welcome. To begin developing, do this:

Clone repo and create a new branch: $ git checkout https://github.com/alichtman/stronghold -b name_for_new_branch.

$ git clone "https://github.com/vatsa287/cli-weather"
$ git checkout -b name_for_new_branch


Make changes and test
Submit Pull Request with comprehensive description of changes


License

cli-weather is made available under GNU License

Copyright 2020 © General Public Licence v3.0.

Reaching Out


You can connect with me here!








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