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title = "The Story Behind cmw"
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author = ["Elia el Lazkani"]
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2021-07-04 05:44:54 +00:00
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date = 2019-08-31
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lastmod = 2019-08-31
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2021-06-27 22:29:22 +00:00
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tags = ["python", "development"]
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categories = ["misc"]
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A few days ago, [Kushal Das](https://kushaldas.in) shared a curl command.
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The command was as follows:
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```text
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$ curl https://wttr.in/
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```
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I, obviously, was curious.
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I ran it and it was interesting.
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So it returns the weather right ? Pretty cool huh!
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<!--more-->
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## The interest {#the-interest}
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That got me interested to learn how does this work exactly.
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## The investigation {#the-investigation}
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I looked at [https://wttr.in/](https://wttr.in/) and it seemed to have a GitHub [link](https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in) and a repository.
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That is very interesting.
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This is a Python application, one can tell by the code or if you prefer the GitHub bar at the top.
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Anyway, one can also tell that this is a [Flask](https://palletsprojects.com/p/flask/) application from the following code in the bin/srv.py.
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```python
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from flask import Flask, request, send_from_directory
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APP = Flask(__name__)
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```
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By reading the README.md of the repository one can read.
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> wttr.in uses [wego](http://github.com/schachmat/wego) for
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> visualization and various data sources for weather forecast
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> information.
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Let's jump to the _wego_ repository then.
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_wego_ seems to be a command line application to graph the weather in the terminal.
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2023-07-01 21:34:12 +00:00
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Great, so what I did with [cmw](https://scm.project42.io/elia/cmw) is already done in Go and API'fied by a different project.
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2021-06-27 22:29:22 +00:00
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My answer to that accusation is obviously this post.
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## The idea {#the-idea}
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I played a bit more with [https://wttr.in/](https://wttr.in/) and I found it to an interesting API.
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I am trying to work on my python development foo so to me that was a perfect little project to work on.
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From my perspective this was simply an API and I am to consume it to put it back in my terminal.
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## The work {#the-work}
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The beginning work was very rough and hidden away in a private repository and was moved later [here](https://gitea.project42.io/Elia/cmw).
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The only thing left from that work is the `--format` argument which allows you full control over what gets sent.
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But again, let's not forget what the real purpose of this project was.
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So I decided to make the whole API as accessible as possible from the command line tool I am writing.
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```text
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$ cmw --help
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usage: cmw [-h] [-L LOCATION] [-f FORMAT] [-l LANG] [-m] [-u] [-M] [-z] [-o]
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[-w] [-A] [-F] [-n] [-q] [-Q] [-N] [-P] [-p] [-T] [-t TRANSPARENCY]
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[--v2] [--version]
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Get the weather!
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optional arguments:
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-L LOCATION, --location LOCATION
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Location (look at epilog for more information)
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-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
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Query formatting
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-l LANG, --lang LANG The language to use
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-m, --metric Units: Metric (SI) (default outside US)
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-u, --uscs Units: USCS (default in US)
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-M, --meter-second Units: Show wind speed in m/s
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-z, --zero View: Only current weather
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-o, --one View: Current weather & one day
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-w, --two View: Current weather & two days
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-A, --ignore-user-agent
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View: Force ANSI output format
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-F, --follow-link View: Show the 'Follow' line from upstream
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-n, --narrow View: Narrow version
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-q, --quiet View: Quiet version
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-Q, --super-quiet View: Super quiet version
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-N, --no-colors View: Switch terminal sequences off
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-P, --png PNG: Generate PNG file
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-p, --add-frame PNG: Add frame around output
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-T, --mid-transparency
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PNG: Make transparency 150
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-t TRANSPARENCY, --transparency TRANSPARENCY
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PNG: Set transparency between 0 and 255
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--v2 v2 interface of the day
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--version show program's version number and exit
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Supported Location Types
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City name: Paris
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Unicode name: Москва
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Airport code (3 letters): muc
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Domain name: @stackoverflow.com
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Area code: 94107
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GPS coordinates: -78.46,106.79
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Special Location
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Moon phase (add ,+US
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or ,+France
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for these cities): moon
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Moon phase for a date: moon@2016-10-25
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Supported languages
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-------------------
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Supported: af da de el et fr fa hu id it nb nl pl pt-br ro ru tr uk vi
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```
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```text
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$ cmw --location London --lang nl --one
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Weerbericht voor: London
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\ / Zonnig
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.-. 20 °C
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― ( ) ― → 19 km/h
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`-’ 10 km
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/ \ 0.0 mm
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┌─────────────┐
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┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ za 31 aug ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
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│ 's Ochtends │ 's Middags └──────┬──────┘ 's Avonds │ 's Nachts │
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├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
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│ \ / Gedeeltelijk b…│ \ / Gedeeltelijk b…│ Bewolkt │ \ / Gedeeltelijk b…│
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│ _ /"".-. 21 °C │ _ /"".-. 23..24 °C │ .--. 20 °C │ _ /"".-. 18 °C │
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│ \_( ). ↗ 12-14 km/h │ \_( ). ↗ 18-20 km/h │ .-( ). ↗ 20-25 km/h │ \_( ). → 16-19 km/h │
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│ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │
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│ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │
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└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
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Locatie: London [51.509648,-0.099076]
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```
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## Conclusion {#conclusion}
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All I got to say in conclusion is that it was a lot of fun working on [cmw](https://gitea.project42.io/Elia/cmw) and I learned a lot.
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I'm not going to publish the package on [PyPI](https://pypi.org/) because seriously, what's the point.
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But if you are interested in making changes to the repository, make an MR.
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