einstein8612/weather-rs

weather-rs

About 💭

Simple weather cli to check for weather based on current IP geolocation or an explicitly stated city. Written in Rust.

Features ✨

• Shows the following information
  • Location
    • Country
    • City
    • Latitude
    • Longtitude
  • Weather
    • Forecast (Clear, Partly Cloudy, etc.)
    • Temperature
    • Apparent Temperature
    • Humidity
    • Precipitation
    • Wind Speed
  • Time of last update
• Gets weather by your IP's location
• Gets weather for a specific city

Building 🔨

For the following distributions, it's available for install here:

• ArchLinux, you can use aur.

For other distributions, or people that want to do a manual install:

Dependencies

In order to build from source, you must have the following installed:

• rust

Build commands

# Clone the source code
git clone [email protected]:einstein8612/weather-rs.git
cd weather-rs

# Build the binary
cargo build --release
# Optional: Move to bin, if you want to use it everywhere
sudo mv target/release/weather-rs /usr/bin/weather

Usage 🕹️

Example #1:

Showcases IP geolocation guessing current location.

$ weather
╭─Location──────────────────────╮
│ Country: The Netherlands      │
│ City: North Holland/Amsterdam │
│ Latitude: 52.3667             │
│ Longtitude: 4.9               │
╰───────────────────────────────╯
╭─Weather──────────────────────╮
│ Forecast: Overcast           │
│ Temperature: 9.2°C           │
│ Apparent Temperature: 3.2°C  │
│ Humidity: 81%                │
│ Precipitation: 0mm           │
│ Wind Speed: 35km/h           │
│ Last updated: 4  minutes ago │
╰──────────────────────────────╯

Example #2:

Showcases overwriting the city

$ weather -c NYC
╭─Location──────────────────────╮
│ Country: United States        │
│ City: New York                │
│ Latitude: 40.71427            │
│ Longtitude: -74.00597         │
│ Population: 8175133           │
╰───────────────────────────────╯
╭─Weather───────────────────────╮
│ Forecast: Clear               │
│ Temperature: 1.2°C            │
│ Apparent Temperature: -4.1°C  │
│ Humidity: 41%                 │
│ Precipitation: 0mm            │
│ Wind Speed: 13.3km/h          │
│ Last updated: 6 minutes ago   │
╰───────────────────────────────╯

APIs used

• For IP to geolocation, it uses ip-api.com.
• For weather and city search, it uses open-meteo.com.